Now
that's plain."
"Good. Now never mind the preaching. I understand you to say that's done
good."
"Perfectly wonderful. You remember how we were both insulted and hooted
at Burslem, only because we were strangers! Well, now, in all the time
that we were away we never heard one uncivil word. Not only they were
civil, and so beautifully courteous to us, but they were so kindly among
themselves, and it is all because they take their Christianity without
any isms."
That wicked puss! She knew how Robert Cassall hated the fights of the
sects, and she played on him, without in the least letting him suspect
what she was doing. He snorted satisfaction. "That's good! that's good!
No isms. And you say they've dropped drink?"
"Entirely, uncle, and all through the preaching without any isms. It is
such a blessed, beautiful thing to think that hundreds of men who used
to make themselves and every one about them wretched, are now calm,
happy fellows. And they do not cant, uncle. All of them know each
other's failings, and they are gentle and forgiving to each other."
"What a precious lot of saints--much too good to live, I should fancy."
"Don't sneer, you graceless. Yes it's quite true. Do you know, dear, the
Early Christian movement is being repeated on the sea."
"Umph. Early Christians! The later Christians have made a pretty mess of
it. Now, just give me, without any waste words, all you have to say
about this hospital business.
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