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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER XII
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To the consternation of his congregation, his first sermon was quite similar to the address he had given before the Convention.

Again he said, and at length and with distressing detail, that the Church had wandered away from the Master's teaching, and that Mammon had been instated in the place of Christ.
And the result was, willy-nilly, that he was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.

He was held a prisoner in the sanitarium.

I called repeatedly, but was denied access to him; and I was terribly impressed by the tragedy of a sane, normal, saintly man being crushed by the brutal will of society.

For the Bishop was sane, and pure, and noble.


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