[Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookPaul Faber, Surgeon CHAPTER XVIII 9/13
If you see Faber a fine fellow, you say so, just as the Lord would, and try the more to save him.
A man who loves and serves his neighbor, let him speak ever so many words against the Son of Man, is not sinning against the Holy Ghost.
He is still open to the sacred influence--the virtue which is ever going forth from God to heal.
It is the man who in the name of religion opposes that which he sees to be good, who is in danger of eternal sin." "Come, come, Wingfold! whatever you do, don't mis-quote," said the rector. "I don't say it is the right reading," returned the curate, "but I can hardly be convicted of misquoting, so long as it is that of the two oldest manuscripts we have." "You always have the better of me," answered the rector.
"But tell me--are not the atheists of the present day a better sort of fellows than those we used to hear of when we were young ?" "I do think so.
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