"Well, it is mine of the devil.

But I can't help feeling sorry you spoke as you did to the elder." "Why ?" she asked.
"Well," he said, "to assert your opinion of the doctrine of eternal damnation as you did, considering your position, Helen, was scarcely wise." "Do you mean because I am the preacher's wife ?" she remonstrated, smiling.

"I must have my convictions, if I am; and I could not listen to such a thing in silence.

You don't know John, if you think he would object to the expression of opinion." Gifford dared not say that John would object to the opinion itself.

"But perhaps I spoke too forcibly; I should be sorry to be unkind, even to Elder Dean." "Well," Gifford said doubtfully, "I only hope he may not feel called upon to 'deal with you.'" They laughed, but the young man added, "After all, when you come to think of it, Helen, there is no bigotry or narrowness which does not spring from a truth, and nothing is truer than that sin is punished eternally.