their spirits?"
"If it is for their good.html">good."
"What enables you to decide what is for their good?"
"Surely, we are told."
"Not to judge.html">judge, that ye be not judged."
"Oh! but we do not, ourselves, judge; we are but impersonal ministers
the individualspirit.html">spirit.html">spirit?"
He looked at me hard, as if he began to scent heresy.
"You had better explain yourself more fully," he said. "I really
the married.html">married that they are one flesh.html">flesh.html">flesh! But we know.html">know.html">know also that there are
spiritual.html">spiritual.html">spiritual revolt wives who have found out that, in spite of all their
that in accordance with the spirit of Christ's teaching.html">teaching, or is it
flesh.' There could not be, seemingly, any more rigid law laid down;
Frankly, I want to know: Is there or is there not a spiritual
precepts, with no inherent connected spiritual philosophy?"
"Of course," he said, in his long-suffering.html">suffering.html">suffering voice, "we don't look at
spirit of Christ's teaching? I think.html">think.html">think you ought to answer me."
"Oh! I can, perfectly," he answered; "the reconciliation is through
the salvation of her spirit. That is the spiritual fulfilment, and
Christian philosophy?"
"Suffering cheerfully borne," he answered.
"You do not think," I said, "that there is a touch of extravagance in
Christian thing than a happy one, where there is no suffering, but
say, I think, that a woman who crucifies her flesh with a cheerful
than one who undergoes no such sacrifice in her married life." And I
an unseen goal.
"You would desire, then, I suppose, suffering as the greatest
quite clear to me."
"Oh?" he asked.
I answered slowly: "Not many men, you know, even in your profession,
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