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All these men came down with dry canteens to the Peiho by Yang-Tsun. The river was choked with dead Chinamen and dead dogs and horses. They must push aside the bodies to find room to dip in their canteens. "You have one more lesson. You must learn to be a Christian." Somehow the words seemed to ring round and round just out of Thaine's mental sight. "Vasser!
The men were so astonished at the sight that they stole away without capturing an animal or saying a word to Saint Blaise, for they thought he must be Orpheus or some heathen god who charmed wild beasts. They went to the Governor and told him what they had seen, and he said, "Ho! I know he is a Christian. The Christians and the beasts are great friends. Go and bring him to me straightway."
And when it was urged in reply that a Christian church ought to have a Christian caretaker, several of them said that if the post was given to them, they were ready to conform as regards Christianity.
In the western branches of the Christian Church—and to some extent, though less markedly, in the eastern—the theory prevails that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do" and manual labour is a recognized part of the monastic life. But in India conditions and ideals were different.
"I wonder when that corner of the house got knocked off," the M.G.O. was observing. "Fairly recently, I should say," replied the Brigadier. "Those marks beside your bedroom window, sir, they look pretty fresh!" interpolated the Padre, a sincere but somewhat tactless Christian. Brigade Headquarters regarded one another with dubious smiles.
Regard him in all his varied relations of Christian, patriot, statesman, husband, father, master, and friend, and answer if the sigh that is now rending the heart of his country is not well merited.
Now these people, how Godfearing and orthodox they are, and how admirably they make religion part of their daily life in the matter of stretching a point and using the right of Christian charity to be lenient when a too rigorous adhesion to principle would injure their interest.
The Spirit, which is the 'Spirit of love, is therefore 'the Spirit of power. The true type of Christian character, which the gospel has brought into being, looks modest, inconspicuous and humdrum, by the side of the more brilliant and vulgar beauties of the world's ideals.
Two days before this Christian circle at Madame Napoleon's, Madame de Chateaureine, with three other ladies, visited the Princesse Borghese. Not seeing a favourite parrot they had often previously admired, they inquired what was become of it. "Oh, the poor creature!" answered the Princess; "I have disposed of it, as well as of two of my monkeys.
The man whose whole moral nature recoils from this position, will not be led into it by the best arguments of Christian philosophers in favor of the "lie of necessity."
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