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'As He which hath called you is holy. Absolute and utter purity is His holiness, and that is the pattern for us. Religion is imitation. The truest form of worship is to copy. All through heathenism you find that principle working. 'They that make them are like unto them. Why are heathen nations so besotted and sunken and obstinate in their foulnesses?
"Perforce," said I ungraciously, perceiving surliness to be the key to the respect of such a creature; "a king might thank Heaven for a kennel on such a night as this." She bent her back in a clumsy bow, and with a growing humility wondered had I supped. I had not, but sooner would I have starved than have been poisoned by such foulnesses as they might have set before me.
The air is mountain-air, minus the aroma and stimulus of evergreen forests, and plus the miasma of miles of marsh and peat-land and the foulnesses of the city exhalations.
Unalleviated sorrows, hideous foulnesses, a gross ignorance covering all the most important realities for men these are the facts with which we have to grapple. Do not let us forget them. And on the other side, remember the contrasted picture here of the sunlit and sunny church. The incarnation of Jesus Christ is the fulfilment of my text.
Were you never not merely puzzled all thinking men are that but crushed and sickened at moments by the mystery of evil? Sickened by the follies, the failures, the ferocities, the foulnesses of mankind, for ages upon ages past? Sickened by the sins of the unholy many sickened, alas! by the imperfections even of the holiest few?
He called Baird and the others Plumie-lovers and vermin-worshipers. He shouted foulnesses at them. But he did not attack. When, still shouting, he went away, Baird said apologetically to the Plumie: "He's a xenophobe. He has a pathological hatred of strangers even of strangeness. We have him on board because " Then he stopped. The Plumie wouldn't understand, of course.
Then each detail became visible: the elephants of the pedestals standing upon tortoises of rock; the great grim faces of the capitals; the serpents and monsters writhing among the friezes; the many-headed gods of basalt in their galleries of fretted niches, tier above tier; the pictured foulnesses, the painted lusts, the divinities of abomination.
His peacemakers are created by having passed through all the previous experiences which the preceding verses bring out. They have learned the poverty of their own spirits. They have wept tears, if not real and literal, yet those which are far more agonising tears of spirit and conscience when they have thought of their own demerits and foulnesses.
Thus day in day out, now broiled and blistered by the pitiless southern sun, now chilled by the night dews whilst he took his cramped and unrefreshing rest, indescribably filthy and dishevelled, his hair and beard matted with endless sweat, unwashed save by the rains which in that season were all too rare, choked almost by the stench of his miserable comrades and infested by filthy crawling things begotten of decaying sheepskins and Heaven alone knows what other foulnesses of that floating hell.
His wife touched his arm and spoke to him in a low tone. He turned furiously upon her, mouthing foulnesses. Cochrane was formidably beside him, and Johnny Simms' expression of fury smoothed out instantly. He looked pleasant and amiable. "The fight stopped," he explained offhandedly. "It was a good fight. But one of the creatures wouldn't stay and take his licking."
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