Poor mazed, bewildered Mrs.Munday, preaching the eternal damnation of the wicked--who had loved her, who had only thought to do her duty, the blame was not hers.

But that a religion capable of inflicting such suffering upon the innocent should still be preached; maintained by the State! That its educated followers no longer believed in a physical Hell, that its more advanced clergy had entered into a conspiracy of silence on the subject was no answer.

The great mass of the people were not educated.

Official Christendom in every country still preached the everlasting torture of the majority of the human race as a well thought out part of the Creator's scheme.

No leader had been bold enough to come forward and denounce it as an insult to his God.