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"But," said Evadne, the old puzzled look coming into her eyes, "I wish I could understand. Are Christians ashamed of the religion of Jesus?" "That's about the amount of it, little coz. It is a sort of kedge anchor which they keep on board in case of danger. For my part I think it is better to sail clear. It is only an uncomfortable addition which spoils the trim of the ship."
"That when they are quoted, or alluded to, they are quoted or alluded to with peculiar respect, as books sui geneus, as possessing an authority which belonged to no other books, and as conclusive in all questions and controversies among christians. "That they were in very early times collected into a distinct volume. "That they were distinguished by appropriate names and titles of respect.
Some, who were styled "The Evangelical Party," went much beyond their brethren in conformity with the prevailing denominations of Christians called Orthodox.
In Jerusalem is the great church called the Sepulchre, and here is the burial-place of Jesus, unto which the Christians make pilgrimages. Jerusalem has four gates the gate of Abraham, the gate of David, the gate of Zion, and the gate of Gushpat, which is the gate of Jehoshaphat, facing our ancient Temple, now called Templum Domini.
Shall we allow it to continue for ever?" "It will continue till they both understand that Nature makes herself," said the Red Beadle. "It will continue till they both understand my husband's book," corrected Hulda. "Not while Jews live among Christians. Even here they say we take the bread out of the mouths of the Christian shoemakers. If we had our own country now " "Hush!" said Zussmann.
Surely it was no epigram in those days, but the simplest statement of commonplace fact, that war was the normal condition of Christians. Alas will it be maintained that in the two and a half centuries which have since elapsed the world has made much progress in a higher direction?
And I would boldly draw the conclusion that the responsibility for the war is shared at least equally by Christians and non-Christians.
So far, indeed, as the existing records of this voyage inform us, we are led to the conclusion that instead of setting an example of morality and virtue to the ignorant heathen they visited, it would, in many instances, have been better for the heathen had they never known these so-called Christians.
When I was a child I remember her conversing with a foreign traveller, a countryman of hers, in a language which I was told was German, and they understood each other, though the old woman confessed that she had lost many words: she has now been dead several years. Myself. Of what religion are the colonists? Hostess. They are Christians, like the Spaniards, and so were their fathers before them.
The reality which is given to the lives of the Christians of the first centuries by acquaintance with the memorials that they have left of themselves here quickens our feeling for them into one almost of personal sympathy. "Your obedience is come abroad unto all men," wrote St. Paul to the first Christians of Rome. The record of that obedience is in the catacombs.
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