I have no desire for fame,--except in so far as
my name may serve as an encouragement and help to others. If you
care to hear my story--"
"I should appreciate your confidence greatly," said the Cardinal
earnestly, "The Fates have made you a leading spirit of the time,--
it would interest me to know your thoughts and theories. But if you
would prefer not to speak--"
"I generally prefer not to speak," replied Cyrillon, "But to-day is
one of open confession,--and I think too that it is sometimes
advisable for men of the Church to understand and enter into the
minds of those who are outside the Church,--who will have no
Church,--not from disobedience or insubordination, but simply
because they do not find God or Christ in that institution as it at
present exists. And nowadays we are seeking for God strenuously and
passionately! We have found Him too in places where the Church
assured us He was not and could not be."
"Is there any portion of life where God is not?" asked Manuel
gently.
Cyrillon's dark eyes softened as he met the boy's glance.
"No, dear child!--truly there is not,--but the priests do nothing to
maintain or to prove that," he replied; "and the more the world
lifts itself higher and higher into the light, the more we shall
perceive God, and the less we will permit anything to intervene
between ourselves and Him.
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