She shrank away from him, and hid her face in her hands.

That roused him, and in a moment the old tenderness enveloped her.
He comforted her with silent love, until she ceased to tremble, and looked again into his tender eyes.
"What I wanted to say," he said, after a while, when she was leaning quietly against his breast, "was just to tell you once more the reasons for believing in this doctrine which so distresses you, dearest.

To say, in a word, if I could, why I lay such stress upon it, instead of some of the other doctrines of the church.

It is because I do believe that salvation, eternal life, Helen, depends upon holding the doctrine of reprobation in its truth and entirety.

For see, beloved: deny the eternity of punishment, and the scheme of salvation is futile.