Leigh;--and still more sorry
that you appear to be bent on opposing the Roman Catholic movement
in England. I will do you the justice to believe that you are moved
by a sincere though erroneous conviction,--and it is out of pure
kindness and interest in you that I warn you how useless you will
find the task in which you have engaged. The force of Rome is
impregnable!--the interpretation of the Gospel by the Pope
infallible. Any man, no matter how gifted with eloquence, or moved
by what he imagines to be truth-(and alas! how often error is
mistaken for truth and truth for error!)--must be crushed in the
endeavour to cope with such a divinely ordained power."
"The Car of Juggernaut was considered to be divinely ordained," said
Aubrey, "And the wretched and ignorant populace flung themselves
under it in the fit of hysterical mania to which they were excited
by the priests of the god, and so perished in their thousands. Not
THEY were to blame; but the men who invented the imposture and
encouraged the slaughter. THEY had an ideal;--the priests had none!
But Juggernaut had its end--and so will Rome!"
"You call yourself a Christian?" asked Gherardi, with a touch of
derision.
"Most assuredly I do," replied Aubrey, "Most assuredly I am! I love
and honour Christ with every fibre of my being.
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