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Yet I should have thought that even in age it might bring comfort to some; and, if so, why should the others complain ?" "For the offence it carries as an infraction of the reformed doctrine under which they supposed themselves to order their lives and worship.

They contend, Master, that they are all members of one Society; and if the doctrine of that Society be infringed to comfort A or B, it is to that extent weakened injuriously for C and D, who have been building their everlasting and only hope on it, and have grown too old to change." "But," answered Master Blanchminster, pinning his finger on the paragraph, "you admit here that even the reformed Church, in the Order for the Visitation of the Sick, enjoins Confession and prescribes a form of Absolution.

Now if a man be not too old for it when he is dying, _a fortiori_ he cannot be too old for it at any previous time." Brother Copas rubbed his hands together softly, gleefully.

He adored dialectic.
"With your leave, Master," he replied, "dying is a mighty singular business.