He has been taught to believe they
are connected with salvation, and he is compelled still to busy
himself with them, rather than with simple external piety.
CHAPTER VI--DRURY LANE THEOLOGY
Such were some of our disciples. I do not think that church or
chapel would have done them much good. Preachers are like unskilled
doctors with the same pill and draught for every complaint. They do
not know where the fatal spot lies on lung or heart or nerve which
robs us of life. If any of these persons just described had gone to
church or chapel they would have heard discourses on the usual set
topics, none of which would have concerned them. Their trouble was
not the forgiveness of sins, the fallacies of Arianism, the
personality of the Holy Ghost, or the doctrine of the Eucharist.
They all WANTED something distinctly. They had great gaping needs
which they longed to satisfy, intensely practical and special. Some
of these necessities no words could in any way meet. It was obvious,
for instance, that Clark must at once be taken away from his gallery
and his copying if he was to live--at least in sanity. He had
fortunately learned shorthand, and M'Kay got him employment on a
newspaper.
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