one find the sanction for massacre? It is nowhere to be found except
in the Psalms of the senile sensualist--in the commands of Moses, the
leader of the marauders of the desert. Christ swept away the barbarities
of the teaching of Moses. He perceived how miserably it had failed; how
it had retarded all that was good in man, and sanctioned all that
was evil. He perceived how it had kept the nation in a condition of
barbarity; how it had made it the prey of the civilized nations around
it; how it had made the Hebrew nations the contempt of civilization; and
yet the Church that calls itself the Church of Christ has not yet had
the courage to offer humanity anything but that impossible task--the
amalgamation of the law that came by Moses and the grace and truth that
came by Jesus Christ."

He spoke with all the fervor of the preacher, with pale face, brilliant
eyes, and clenched hands; but in a voice adapted to a drawing room.
Phyllis of Philistia could not but admit that, in the phrase of
Philistia he had spoken in perfect taste. He had not alluded definitely
to the boldness of Ruth or to the calorific course accepted by the aged
David. He had spoken in those general terms which are adopted by the
clergymen who never err against good taste as defined by the matrons of
Philistia.

She did not know whether she admired him or detested him. But she was
certain that she did not love him. He might be right in all that he had
said, but she had freed herself from him. He might be destined to become
one of the most prominent men of the last ten years of the century, but
she would never marry him.

She stood face to face with him when he had spoken.