Shwaygnong had in the meantime taken alarm at being interrogated by the Government, had apologized, and apparently fallen away; but he could not keep aloof, and soon came back again.

After a good deal of fencing and putting forth metaphysical cavils, he allowed that it was all for the sake of experiment, and declared that he really believed both in God and in the Atonement.
"Said I," writes Mr.Judson, "knowing his deistical weakness, do you believe all that is contained in the book of St.Matthew which I gave you?
In particular, do you believe that the Son of God died on a cross ?" "Ah!" he replied, "you have caught me now.

I believe that He suffered death, but I cannot admit that He suffered the shameful death of the cross." "Therefore," said I, "you are not a disciple of Christ.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason, but whether it is in the Book.

His pride has yielded to Divine testimony.