Then would she care utterly for God and his Christ,
nothing for what men said about them: the Lord never meant his lambs
to be under the tyranny of any, least of all the tyranny of his own
most imperfect church! its work is to teach; where it cannot teach,
it must not rule! Then would God appear to her not only true, but
real--the heart of the human, to which she could cling, and so rest.
The corruption of all religion comes of leaving the human, and God
as the causing Human, for something imagined holier. Men who do not
see the loveliness of the Truth, search till they find a lie they
can call lovely. What but a human reality could the heart of man
ever love! what else are we offered in Jesus but the absolutely
human? That Jesus has two natures is of the most mischievous
fictions of theology. The divine and the human are not two.
Suddenly, after an absence of months, reappeared lord
Forgue--cheerful, manly, on the best terms with his father, and
plainly willing to be on still better terms with his cousin! He had
left the place a mooning youth; he came back a man of the
world--easy in carriage, courteous in manners, serene in temper,
abounding in what seemed the results of observation, attentive but
not too attentive, jolly with Davie, distant with Donal, polite to
all. Donal could hardly receive the evidence of his senses: he would
have wondered more had he known every factor in the change.
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