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Then as he turned over the pages his eyes rested on a passage of uncivil and ungenerous sarcasm. Against old Likeman of all people!... What did a girl like Clementina make of all this? How had she got the book? From Eleanor? The stuff had not hurt Eleanor. Eleanor had been able to take the good that Chasters taught, and reject the evil of his spirit....
Neither by night nor by day could the bishop find a proper method of opening a counter attack upon Chasters, who was indisputably an intellectually abler man and a very ruthless beast indeed to assail, and meanwhile the demand that action should be taken increased.
Blent bent their brows over chess. Eleanor was reading the evening paper. Lady Ella sat on a high chair by the coffee things, and he stood in the doorway surveying the peaceful scene for a moment or so, before he went across the room and sat down on the couch close to her. "You look tired," she whispered softly. "Worries." "That Chasters case?" "Things developing out of that.
Chasters calls 'The Core of Truth in Christianity." "You have been reading him?" "Eleanor lent me the book. But Mr. Chasters keeps his living." "I am not Chasters," said Scrope stiffly, and then relenting: "What he does may be right for him. But I could not do as he does." Lady Ella had said no word for some time. "I would be ashamed," she said quietly, "if you had not done as you have done.
It was curious that his doubts always seemed to have a double strand; there was a moral objection based on the church's practical futility and an intellectual strand subordinated to this which traced that futility largely to its unconvincing formulae. "And yet you know," said the bishop, "I find I can't go with Chasters. He beats at the church; he treats her as though she were wrong.
He does not limit himself to nice people. In these matters of evidence and argument, in his contempt for amiable, demoralizing compromise, Chasters served God as Scrope could never hope to serve him. Scrope's new faith had perhaps been altogether impossible if the Chasters controversy had not ploughed his mind. For a time Scrope dwelt upon this remarkable realization.
For a bishop, disbelief in the Church is a far profounder scepticism than mere disbelief in God. God is unseen, and in daily things unfelt; but the Church is with the predestined bishop always. His concept of the extremest possible departure from orthodoxy had been something that Chasters had phrased as "a restatement of Christ."
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