"
"Isn't that putting it rather strong, Brother Quickset?"
"Of course it isn't. Don't I know, I should like to ask? Don't I
always hire him myself?"
"Oh!" That was the only word the other deacon spoke, but his eyes
danced, and he twisted his lips into an odd grin.
"Oh, get out!" exclaimed the pillar of orthodoxy. "You needn't take it
that way. Of course what I ask him to do is only right: if I didn't
think so, I wouldn't ask him."
"Of course not, brother. But think a moment: do you really believe that
any form of professional pride would persuade that young man--proud as
Lucifer, and just as conceited and headstrong, a young man who always
has argued against religion and against every belief you and I hold
dear--to rise for prayers in an inquiry meeting, and afterwards say it
was the Christian life of Sam Kimper,--a man whom a high-born fellow
like Bartram must believe as near the animals as humanity ever is,--to
say it was the Christian life of Sam Kimper that convinced him of the
supernatural origin and saving power of Christianity?"
"I can't believe he put it that way: there must be something else
behind it. I'm going to find out for myself and do it at once, too.
This sort of nonsense must be stopped. Why, if men go to taking
everything Jesus Christ said just as He said it, everything in the
world in the way of business is going to be turned upside down.
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