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Meanwhile, in his conversation with Raffles, he had learned so which entered actively into the struggle of his

longings and terrors There, he thought, lay an opening towards

spiritual, perhaps towards enuine need with him There may be

coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and e the world, but Bulstrode was not one of theer than his theoretic

beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his

desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs If this be

hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all,

to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future

perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the

world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved

re ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the

solidarity of ion had been through life

the ground he alleged to himself for his choice of action: it had been

the motive which he had poured out in his prayers Who would use money

and position better than he meant to use them? Who could surpass him

in self-abhorrence and exaltation of God's cause? And to Mr Bulstrode