He had time to see that he could get the baby off but not himself, and then he went ahead.

Doubtless it was a very common baby, and certainly he was a very common man.

Why, I could go down to Sing Sing tomorrow, and I'll stake my own soul that in the whole cageful of criminals there isn't one who would not eagerly submit to crucifixion if he believed that he would thereby ransom the race from hell.

And he wouldn't want the power to damn the unbelievers, either.

He would insist upon saving them with the others." "Oh, God, forgive this insane passion in my boy!" "It was passion, sir--" he spoke with a sudden relenting--"but try to remember that I've sought the truth honestly." "You degrade the Saviour." "No; I only raise man out of the muck of Christian belief about him.