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"Don't you?" the doctor asked him suddenly, after a short pause. "I do not." "Don't you, as a priest, believe, for instance, that this whole trouble was sent to Opdyke for his betterment?" Brenton halted in his walk, and gazed down at the doctor fearlessly. "I do not," he said. "You profess to," the doctor reminded him, with scant mercy. Brenton's lips stiffened. "Exactly. There is the trouble.
We can no more exchange our duties than our stations; but if our lives divide, our purpose remains one, and as pious persons recall each other in the mystery of the Sacrament, so we shall meet in spirit in the new religion we profess." Her voice gained strength and measure as she spoke, and Odo felt that all that passion could urge must spend itself in vain against such high security of spirit.
So will you secure your rightful pre-eminence among the sons of genius; recover your cheerfulness, your health I trust it is not too late become reconciled to yourself; and, through the merits of that Saviour in whom you profess to trust, obtain at last the approbation of your Maker, My dear Coleridge, be wise before it be too late.
"I don't even remember the promise," Pamela laughed, "but in any case I have changed my mind. I am not sure that you are the nice, simple-minded person you profess to be. I begin to have doubts about you." "Interest grows with mystery," Lutchester remarked complacently. "Let us hope that I am promoted in your mind." "Well, I am not at all sure.
Thus not unlike the rival circumnavigators from Spain and Portugal, who setting out in contrary directions, found themselves in company at the very time they thought themselves farthest from each other; so the bulk of professed Christians arrive, though by a different course, almost at the very same point, and occupy nearly the same station as a set of enthusiasts, who also rest upon a barren faith, to whom on the first view they might be thought the most nearly opposite, and whose tenets they with reason profess to hold in peculiar detestation.
I was heartsick, discouraged, and full of resentment and indignation, which until then had been pent up. Under the arraignment my people writhed and squirmed. I ended: "What I am saying hurts you, but in your hearts you know you deserve every word of it. It is high time you saw yourselves as you are a disgrace to the religion you profess and to the community you live in."
With these we loaded ourselves, Jose taking one of the heaviest packages. "You will accompany us," said my father to him. "If you have the regard for me you profess, you will willingly go; and should we hear favourable accounts of the progress of events in the island, you will be able to return, should you wish it." "It is my wish to obey you, senor," answered Jose.
"Oh, not so, your majesty; I am far too religious to fall into such errors." "Yes, you are too religious; or, rather you have to many religions. To which, for example, do you now profess to belong?" "Sire, I have become a Protestant." "From conviction?" "So long as I believed in the possibility of marrying several millions yes, from conviction.
"It's not tattooed," said the doctor, peering through his glasses. "I never saw anything like it. The man has been branded at some time as they brand cattle. What is the meaning of this?" "I don't profess to know the meaning of it," said Cecil Barker; "but I have seen the mark on Douglas many times this last ten years." "And so have I," said the butler.
The Master did not allow himself to be drawn into any extended conversation about the details of a future life, but he did give us the God of the cross. In the presence of that cross we can profess the utmost confidence in the eternal life of the sons of God, while at the same time acknowledging the utmost ignorance as to any of the material conditions of the future life.
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