Still, I like fair play, whatever be the
consequences. Your arraignment of talking skeptics is a severe one
and strikes me in a new light. Might they not urge, in self-defence,
that there was a deeper and darker abyss on the farther side of the
rock to which the wrecked were clinging? May they not argue that
the grasp of faith may lead to a deeper and more bitter disappointment?"
"How can they know that? How can they know what shall be in the
ages to come?" replied Miss Burton, speaking rapidly. "This is the
situation:--I am clinging to some hope, something that I believe
will be truth which sustains me, and the only force of the skeptic's
words is to loosen my grasp. No better support is given, no new
hope inspired. Believe me," she concluded passionately, "I would
rather die a thousand deaths by torture than lose my faith that
there is a God who will bring order out of this chaos of broken,
thwarted lives, of which the world is full, and that those who seek
a 'happier shore' will eventually find it."
"You will find it," said Van Berg, in low emphatic tones; and
then he added with a shrug, as he rose from the table, "I wish my
chances were as good.
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