I can better understand the words of Master Clarke when he says, 'Plead with your mother--plead with her.'" "We will plead.

We have pleaded already; we will plead again and yet again!" cried Dalaber, with a flash in his dark eyes.

"But methinks a time will come when the day of pleading will be past, and the day of reckoning will come; and she will have to learn that her children will not always suffer her impurities and abominations, but that they will rise up and cleanse the sanctuary from the filthiness wherewith it is defiled." "Yet let them not cease to love her," spoke Freda gently, "for, as Master Clarke truly says, we are all one body--the Body of Christ; and if we have to war one with another, and rend that body for its own healing, we must yet remember that we are all members one of another even in our strife." "It is a hard saying," spoke Dalaber, "yet I believe it is the truth.

God send us more men like John Clarke, to show us the way through this tangle of perplexities!".