"We shall never interfere with you in the least degree, my dear Ferrier.

We'll take such help as you can give.

We need all we can get.
When you are fairly in the thick of our work you will perhaps understand that we have vital need of religion to keep us up at all.

You can't tell what an appalling piece of work there is before us; but I give you my word that if religion were not a vital part of my being, if I did not believe that God is watching every action and leading us in our blind struggles, I should faint at my task; I should long for extinction, though only cowards seek it of their own accord." A quiet, short man broke in here.

He had sat smiling softly as the talk went on.