Just let me show you the truth and justice of all this; let me tell you how the scheme of salvation makes the mystery of sin and punishment clear and right." "No," she said, the flush of pain dying out of her face, but her eyes still shining with unshed tears,--"no, I cannot talk of it.

I should be wicked if I could believe it; it would make me wicked.

Don't ever speak to me of it, John." She came and put her arms around him, and kissed his forehead gently; and then she left him to struggle with his conscience, and to ask himself whether his delay had caused this feeling of abhorrence, or whether the waiting had been wise and should be prolonged.
But Helen's words to Mrs.Davis were repeated, and ran from mouth to mouth, with the strangest additions and alterations.

Mrs.Ward had said that there was no hell, and no heaven, and no God.

What wonder, then, with such a leaven of wickedness at work in the church, Elder Dean grew alarmed, and in the bosom of his own family expressed his opinion of Mrs.
Ward, and at prayer-meeting prayed fervently for unbelievers, even though she was not there to profit by it.