Wherefore, as thou mayest understand, the Papists and the Puritans alike suffer, and so suffering are something drawn together as friends, albeit in doctrine they are wide asunder--wider than we from the Establishment or they from it.

But trouble drives even foes to make common cause sometimes." Cherry sighed impatiently.
"I would that men would e'en forget all these vexed doctrines and dry dogmas, and learn to enjoy life as it might be enjoyed.

Why are we for ever lamenting evils which none may put right?
What does it matter whether we pray to God in a fine church or a homely room?
I would fain go to church with the fine folk, since the King will have it so, and strive to find God there as well as in the bare barn where Master Baker holds his meeting.

They bid us read our Bibles, but they will not let us obey the commands laid down--" "Nay, hush, Cherry! hush, hush! What and if Aunt Susan heard ?" "Let her hear!" cried the defiant Cherry, though she lowered her voice instinctively at the warning; "I am saying naught to be ashamed of.

I know naught about these matters of disputing; I only know that the Bible bids folks submit themselves to the powers that be, whether they be kings, or rulers, or magistrates, because the powers that be are of God.