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"And I will give the ies--it is all he wants--but

notthe husk and shell to the

kernel For theht not Do you think God will be satisfied with

half an oblation? Will He accept a mutilated sacrifice? It is the

cause of God I advocate: it is under His standard I enlist you I

cannot accept on His behalf a divided allegiance: it ive my heart to God," I said "YOU do not want it"

I will not swear, reader, that there was not so of repressed

sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in

the feeling that accompanied it I had silently feared St John

till now, because I had not understood him He had held me in awe,

because he had held me in doubt How much of him was saint, how

much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were

being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was

proceeding before my eyes I saw his fallibilities: I co there where I did, on the bank of

heath, and with that handso as I The veil fell fro felt in him the presence of these qualities, I felt his