THE
TRUE
HISTORY
OF
JOSHUA
DAVIDSON
STRAHAN
AND
CO.
56
,
LUDGATE
HILL
,
LONDON
1872
[
All
Rights
Reserved
]
LONDON
:
BRADBURY
,
EVANS
,
AND
CO.
,
PRINTERS
,
WHITEFRIARS
.
PREFACE
.
SO
many
false
reports
have
got
about
concerning
the
life
and
opinions
of
JOSHUA
DAVIDSON
,
the
Cornish
carpenter
,
that
I
feel
it
to
be
a
duty
I
owe
his
memory
to
tell
the
truth
as
I
know
it
;
leaving
the
world
to
judge
between
what
I
,
his
nearest
friend
,
knew
of
him
,
and
what
gossips
and
his
enemies
have
falsely
said
.
As
I
am
neither
a
gentleman
nor
a
scholar
I
have
not
pretended
to
any
graces
of
style
;
and
I
have
not
tried
to
make
an
amusing
story
.
My
little
book
is
more
a
record
of
what
JOSHUA
said
and
thought
than
of
what
happened
to
him
through
others
:
that
is
,
there
is
next
to
no
dramatic
interest
in
it
.
Neither
do
I
care
to
give
my
name
.
Those
who
know
JOSHUA
will
know
who
I
am
well
enough
;
and
if
I
have
said
anything
wrong
they
can
come
forward
and
challenge
me
.
And
for
the
rest
it
does
not
signify
.
I
have
written
merely
for
truth
's
sake
and
love
's
;
and
with
this
I
leave
my
dear
friend
's
memory
to
the
verdict
of
all
honest
hearts
.
JOHN
.
CHAPTER
I
.
JOSHUA
DAVIDSON
was
the
only
son
of
a
village
carpenter
,
born
in
the
small
hamlet
of
Trevalga
on
the
North
Cornwall
coast
,
in
the
year
1835.
His
parents
were
poor
but
worthy
people
,
who
kept
themselves
very
much
together
and
had
but
little
to
do
with
the
neighbours
.
Folks
blamed
this
for
pride
,
and
said
they
held
themselves
high
because
they
were
the
decayed
branches
of
an
ancient
family
—
some
said
dating
from
King
Arthur
's
self
.
Of
course
this
was
only
an
“
Arthurian
legend
,
”
if
I
may
call
it
so
,
that
could
not
be
verified
;
for
naturally
down
about
Tintagel
everything
has
to
do
with
King
Arthur
—
even
the
choughs
.
Joshua
sometimes
spoke
of
it
,
but
not
from
pride
;
there
never
was
a
man
freer
from
that
failing
than
he
;
rather
from
the
belief
he
had
in
what
a
learned
man
would
call
hereditary
transmission
,
but
as
we
say
,
just
“
in
the
blood
,
”
and
a
kind
of
idea
that
dawned
on
him
,
quite
of
late
years
,
that
there
would
be
a
revival
of
national
glories
,
national
names
and
leaders
,
under
new
aspects
but
from
the
ancient
sources
.
And
if
so
,
might
he
not
count
for
something
,
direct
descendant
as
he
believed
he
was
of
the
hero
whose
Castle
had
been
one
of
his
earliest
playgrounds
,
and
on
whose
Quoit
he
had
spent
many
an
hour
of
way-side
dreaming
ing
?
It
was
a
fancy
;
a
harmless
one
;
so
let
it
pass
for
just
as
much
as
it
was
worth
.
There
was
nothing
very
remarkable
about
Joshua
's
childhood
.
He
was
always
a
quiet
,
thoughtful
boy
,
and
from
his
earliest
years
noticeably
pious
.
His
parents
came
of
the
Friends
'
stock
;
not
of
a
strict
kind
themselves
,
for
they
joined
in
the
Church
services
;
but
the
fact
is
just
an
indication
of
the
kind
of
influences
which
helped
to
mould
him
in
early
youth
.
He
had
a
habit
of
asking
why
,
and
of
reasoning
out
a
principle
,
from
quite
a
little
lad
;
which
displeased
people
;
so
that
he
did
not
get
all
the
credit
from
the
schoolmaster
and
the
clergyman
to
which
his
diligence
and
good
conduct
entitled
him
.
They
thought
him
troublesome
,
and
some
said
he
was
self-conceited
;
which
he
never
was
;
but
the
more
he
was
in
earnest
the
more
he
offended
them
.
He
was
never
well
looked
on
by
the
Vicar
since
a
famous
scene
that
took
place
in
the
church
one
Sunday
after
afternoon
catechism
.
He
was
then
about
fourteen
years
of
age
,
and
I
have
heard
say
he
was
a
beautiful
boy
,
with
a
face
almost
like
a
young
woman
's
for
purity
and
spirituality
.
He
was
so
beautiful
that
some
ladies
and
gentlemen
staying
at
the
Vicarage
noticed
him
during
church
time
,
and
said
he
looked
like
a
boy-saint
.
But
he
knew
nothing
about
himself
.
I
question
if
he
knew
whether
his
hair
was
black
like
mine
,
or
,
as
it
was
,
a
bright
brown
like
ripe
nuts
in
the
sunshine
.
After
catechism
was
over
he
stood
out
before
the
rest
,
just
in
his
rough
country
clothes
as
he
vas
,
and
said
very
respectfully
to
the
Vicar
,
Mr.
Grand
:
“
If
you
please
sir
,
I
would
like
to
ask
you
a
few
questions
.
”
“
Certainly
,
my
lad
,
what
have
you
to
say
?
”
said
Mr.
Grand
rather
shortly
.
He
did
not
seem
over
well
pleased
at
the
boy
's
addressing
him
;
but
he
could
not
well
refuse
to
hear
him
because
of
the
ladies
and
gentlemen
with
him
,
and
especially
Mr.
Freeman
,
a
very
good
old
man
who
thought
well
of
everybody
,
and
let
everybody
do
pretty
much
as
they
liked
.
“
If
we
say
,
sir
,
that
Jesus
Christ
was
God
,
”
said
Joshua
,
“
surely
all
that
He
said
and
did
must
be
the
real
right
?
There
cannot
be
a
better
way
than
His
?
”
“
Surely
not
,
my
lad
,
”
Mr.
Grand
made
answer
;
“
what
else
have
you
been
taught
all
your
life
?
what
else
have
you
been
saying
in
your
catechism
just
now
?
”
“
And
His
apostles
and
disciples
,
they
showed
the
way
too
?
”
said
Joshua
.
“
And
they
showed
the
way
too
,
as
you
say
;
and
if
you
come
up
to
half
they
taught
you
'll
do
well
,
Joshua
.
”
The
Vicar
laughed
a
little
laugh
as
he
said
this
;
but
it
was
a
laugh
,
Joshua
's
mother
said
,
that
seemed
to
mean
the
same
thing
as
a
“
scat
”
—
our
Cornish
word
for
a
blow
—
only
the
boy
did
n't
seem
to
see
it
.
“
Yes
;
but
,
sir
,
it
is
not
of
myself
I
am
thinking
,
it
is
of
the
world
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
If
we
are
Christians
,
why
do
n't
we
live
as
Christians
?
”
“
Ah
indeed
!
why
do
n't
we
!
”
said
Mr.
Grand
.
“
Because
of
the
wickedness
of
the
human
heart
;
because
of
the
world
,
the
flesh
,
and
the
devil
!
”
“
Then
,
sir
,
if
you
feel
this
,
why
do
n't
you
and
all
the
clergy
live
like
the
apostles
,
and
give
what
you
have
to
the
poor
?
”
cried
Joshua
,
clasping
his
hands
and
making
a
step
forward
,
the
tears
in
his
eyes
.
“
Why
,
when
you
read
that
verse
,
‘Whoso
hath
this
world
's
good
,
and
seeth
his
brother
have
need
,
and
shutteth
up
his
compassion
from
him
,
how
dwelleth
the
love
of
God
in
him
?
’
do
you
live
in
a
fine
house
,
and
have
grand
dinners
,
and
let
Peggy
Bray
nearly
starve
in
that
old
mud
hut
of
hers
,
and
widow
Tregellis
there
,
with
her
six
children
,
and
no
fire
or
clothing
for
them
?
I
ca
n't
make
it
out
,
sir
!
Christ
was
GOD
;
and
we
are
Christians
;
yet
we
wo
n't
do
as
He
ordered
,
though
you
tell
us
it
is
a
sin
that
can
never
be
forgiven
if
we
dispute
what
the
Bible
says
.
”
“
And
so
it
is
,
”
said
Mr.
Grand
sternly
.
“
Who
has
been
putting
these
bad
thoughts
in
to
your
head
?
”
“
No
one
sir
.
I
have
been
thinking
for
myself
.
Michael
,
out
by
Lion
's
Den
,
is
called
an
infidel
;
he
calls
himself
one
;
and
you
preached
last
Sunday
that
no
infidel
can
be
saved
;
but
Michael
helped
Peggy
and
her
base
child
when
the
Orphan
Fund
people
took
away
her
pension
,
because
,
as
you
yourself
told
her
,
she
was
a
bad
woman
,
and
it
was
encouraging
wickedness
;
and
he
worked
early
and
late
for
widow
Tregellis
and
her
children
,
and
shared
with
them
all
he
had
,
going
short
for
them
many
a
time
.
And
I
ca
n't
help
thinking
,
sir
,
that
Christ
,
who
forgave
all
manner
of
sinners
,
would
have
helped
Peggy
with
her
base
child
,
and
that
Michael
,
being
an
infidel
and
such
a
good
man
,
is
something
like
that
second
son
in
the
Parable
who
said
he
would
not
do
his
Lord
's
will
when
he
was
ordered
,
but
who
went
all
the
same
—
”
“
And
that
your
Vicar
is
like
the
first
?
”
interrupted
Mr.
Grand
angrily
.
“
Well
,
yes
,
sir
,
if
you
please
,
”
said
Joshua
quite
modestly
but
very
fervently
.
There
was
a
great
stir
among
the
ladies
and
gentlemen
when
Joshua
said
this
;
and
some
laughed
a
little
,
under
their
breath
because
it
was
in
church
,
and
others
lifted
up
their
eyebrows
,
and
said
,
“
What
an
extraordinary
boy
!
”
and
whispered
together
;
but
Mr.
Grand
was
very
angry
,
and
said
in
a
severe
tone
—
“
These
sinners
are
beyond
the
knowledge
of
an
ignorant
lad
like
you
,
Joshua
;
and
I
advise
you
,
before
you
turn
questioner
and
reformer
,
to
learn
a
little
humility
and
respect
for
your
betters
.
I
consider
you
have
done
a
very
impertinent
thing
to-day
,
and
I
shall
mark
you
for
it
!
”
“
I
did
not
wish
to
be
impertinent
,
sir
,
”
said
Joshua
eagerly
;
“
I
want
only
to
know
the
right
of
things
from
you
,
and
to
do
as
God
has
commanded
,
and
Christ
has
shown
us
the
way
.
And
as
you
are
our
clergyman
,
and
this
is
the
House
of
God
,
I
thought
it
the
best
plan
to
ask
.
I
want
only
to
know
the
truth
;
and
I
cannot
make
it
out
!
”
“
Hold
your
tongue
,
sir
!
”
said
Mr.
Grand
.
“
God
has
commanded
you
to
obey
your
pastors
and
masters
and
all
that
are
in
authority
over
you
;
so
let
us
have
no
more
of
this
folly
.
Believe
as
you
are
taught
,
and
do
as
you
are
told
,
and
do
n't
set
yourself
up
as
an
independent
thinker
in
matters
you
understand
no
more
than
the
ass
you
drive
.
Go
back
to
your
place
,
sir
,
and
another
time
think
twice
before
you
speak
to
your
superiors
.
”
“
I
meant
no
harm
.
I
meant
only
the
truth
and
to
hear
the
things
of
God
,
”
repeated
Joshua
sadly
,
as
he
took
his
seat
among
his
companions
;
who
tittered
.
When
they
all
went
out
of
church
Mr.
Grand
was
heard
to
say
to
Mr.
Freeman
:
“
You
will
see
,
Freeman
,
that
boy
will
go
to
the
bad
;
he
will
turn
out
a
pestilent
fellow
,
a
freethinker
and
a
democrat
.
Oh
,
I
know
the
breed
,
with
their
cant
about
truth
and
the
right
!
He
richly
deserved
a
flogging
to-day
if
ever
boy
did
;
to
dare
to
take
me
to
task
in
my
own
church
!
”
But
Mr.
Freeman
said
gently
;
“
I
do
n't
think
he
meant
it
for
insolence
.
I
think
the
lad
was
in
earnest
,
though
of
course
he
should
not
have
spoken
as
he
did
.
”
“
Earnest
or
not
,
he
must
be
taught
better
manners
for
the
future
,
”
said
Mr.
Grand
.
And
so
it
was
that
Joshua
was
not
well
looked
on
by
the
clergyman
,
who
was
his
enemy
,
as
one
may
say
,
ever
after
.
All
this
made
a
great
talk
at
the
time
,
and
there
are
many
who
remember
the
whole
thing
at
this
present
day
;
as
any
one
would
find
if
they
were
to
ask
down
at
Trevalga
;
but
all
that
Joshua
was
ever
heard
to
say
of
it
was
:
“
I
thought
only
of
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
God
;
I
never
thought
of
man
at
all
.
”
He
did
not
however
,
repeat
the
experiment
of
asking
inconvenient
questions
of
his
social
superiors
in
public
;
but
it
was
noticed
that
after
this
he
became
more
and
more
thoughtful
,
and
more
and
more
under
the
influence
of
a
higher
principle
than
lads
of
his
age
are
usually
troubled
with
.
And
though
always
tender
to
his
parents
and
respectful
to
the
schoolmaster
and
minister
,
and
the
like
of
that
,
yet
he
was
less
guided
by
what
might
be
called
expediency
in
his
conduct
,
and
more
than
ever
a
stickler
for
the
uncompromising
truth
,
and
the
life
as
lived
by
Jesus
Christ
.
He
was
not
uncomfortable
to
live
with
,
his
mother
said
;
quite
the
contrary
;
no
one
ever
saw
him
out
of
temper
,
and
no
one
ever
knew
him
do
a
bad
thing
;
but
he
somehow
forced
his
parents
to
be
always
up
to
the
mark
,
and
even
the
neighbours
were
ashamed
to
talk
loosely
or
say
what
they
should
n't
before
a
lad
whose
whole
thought
,
whose
sole
endeavour
was
,
“
how
to
realise
Christ
.
”
“
Mother
,
”
he
once
said
,
as
he
and
Mrs.
Davidson
stood
by
the
cottage
door
together
,
“
I
mean
when
I
grow
up
to
live
as
our
Lord
and
Saviour
lived
when
He
was
on
the
earth
.
For
though
he
is
God
in
Heaven
he
was
only
man
here
;
and
what
He
did
we
too
can
do
with
His
help
and
the
Holy
Spirit
's
.
”
“
He
is
our
example
,
lad
,
”
said
his
mother
reverently
.
“
But
I
doubt
lest
you
fall
by
over
boldness
.
”
“
Then
,
if
imitation
is
over
bold
,
His
life
was
a
delusion
,
and
He
is
not
our
example
at
all
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Which
is
a
saying
of
the
devil
.
”
CHAPTER
II
.
JOSHUA
did
not
leave
home
early
.
He
wrought
at
his
father
's
bench
and
was
content
to
bide
with
his
people
.
But
his
spirit
was
not
dead
if
his
life
was
uneventful
.
He
gathered
about
him
a
few
youths
of
his
own
age
,
and
held
with
them
prayer
meetings
and
Bible
readings
,
either
at
home
in
his
father
's
house
,
or
in
the
fields
when
the
throng
was
too
great
for
the
cottage
.
It
gave
one
a
feeling
as
of
old
primitive
times
to
be
sitting
there
under
the
clear
sky
of
a
summer
's
evening
,
with
the
larks
singing
over
head
,
and
the
swallows
and
sea
birds
flashing
through
the
air
,
the
voice
of
the
waves
as
they
beat
up
against
Long
Island
subdued
to
a
tender
murmur
that
seemed
to
have
a
mystery
somehow
in
it
,
and
the
young
carpenter
reading
to
us
of
Christ
,
and
praying
for
the
power
to
be
like
unto
Him
in
life
and
heart
;
praying
with
an
earnestness
,
a
realization
,
a
very
passion
of
entreaty
—
nay
,
I
have
never
heard
or
seen
aught
like
it
since
,
in
church
or
chapel
either
!
And
then
he
himself
was
so
unlike
other
boys
.
He
was
so
upright
,
so
steadfast
!
No
one
ever
knew
Joshua
tell
the
shadow
of
a
lie
,
or
go
back
from
his
word
,
or
play
at
pretence
.
And
he
had
such
an
odd
way
of
coming
right
home
to
us
.
He
seemed
to
have
felt
all
that
we
felt
,
and
to
have
thought
all
our
thoughts
.
Young
as
he
was
,
he
was
our
leader
even
then
.
We
all
looked
for
great
things
from
him
.
I
should
be
laughed
at
if
I
said
how
high
our
expectations
reached
.
The
youths
that
Joshua
go
together
as
his
friends
were
as
well-conditioned
a
set
of
lads
as
you
could
wish
to
see
;
sober
,
industrious
,
chaste
.
They
were
never
in
any
trouble
,
and
no
one
could
say
they
had
ever
heard
one
of
them
give
back
a
bad
word
,
whatever
the
provocation
,
or
say
a
loose
one
;
but
the
clergy
of
their
several
parishes
scouted
them
,
and
stood
at
no
evil
to
say
of
them
.
For
they
were
not
church-goers
;
and
that
is
always
an
offence
to
the
clergy
of
country
parishes
,
who
treat
even
the
best
of
the
Dissenters
as
little
better
than
rogues
,
taking
it
partly
as
a
personal
affront
and
partly
as
a
moral
sin
if
their
parishioners
find
greater
comfort
for
their
poor
souls
elsewhere
where
than
under
them
.
However
,
for
the
matter
of
that
,
the
lads
were
of
no
denomination
;
and
though
they
prayed
much
and
often
,
it
was
neither
at
church
nor
chapel
;
it
was
at
their
own
houses
or
in
the
fields
.
Their
aim
was
to
be
thorough
and
like
Christ
.
They
denounced
the
sin
of
luxury
among
professing
Christians
,
and
spared
no
one
,
lay
or
clerical
:
so
did
Christ
,
they
said
.
They
set
their
faces
against
the
priestly
class
altogether
,
and
maintained
that
Christ
as
High
Priest
needed
no
subordinate
or
go-between
,
and
that
the
modern
parson
was
only
the
ancient
Pharisee
,
whom
Christ
was
never
weary
of
denouncing
.
They
were
anti-Sabbatarians
too
,
as
He
had
been
,
and
held
the
doctrine
of
freedom
in
Christ
throughout
.
They
believe
implicitly
every
word
of
the
Gospels
,
which
they
stood
by
as
fuller
of
the
Divine
Life
than
the
Epistles
;
and
they
thought
that
the
Example
left
the
world
was
the
one
thing
to
follow
and
the
one
pattern
to
imitate
.
Joshua
's
great
hope
and
desire
,
confessed
among
us
,
was
to
bring
back
the
world
to
the
simplicity
and
broad
humanity
of
Christ
's
acted
life
;
and
as
a
believer
in
the
divinity
of
that
life
,
he
could
not
understand
how
it
had
been
let
drop
.
His
one
central
point
was
the
same
now
as
that
which
had
formerly
troubled
him
—
and
Mr.
Grand
;
namely
,
how
,
if
Christ
was
God
,
and
His
life
given
to
us
as
our
example
,
do
we
not
follow
it
literally
,
in
simple
exactness
,
and
as
we
find
it
set
before
us
in
the
Gospels
?
And
he
believed
that
God
would
strengthen
his
hands
,
not
only
to
enable
him
to
realise
this
in
his
own
person
,
but
also
to
evangelise
society
,
and
bring
it
over
to
the
Truth
along
with
him
.
He
was
waiting
for
a
Sign
;
and
he
believed
it
would
be
given
him
.
He
was
but
a
young
man
at
this
time
,
remember
;
enthusiastic
,
with
little
or
no
scientific
knowledge
and
with
much
of
the
logic
of
fanaticism
;
unable
to
judge
between
the
possible
and
the
impossible
,
and
putting
the
direct
interposition
of
God
above
the
natural
law
.
Wherefore
,
he
accepted
the
text
about
faith
removing
mountains
as
literally
true
,
and
possible
to
be
done
.
Given
the
faith
,
the
mountain
would
move
.
And
one
evening
he
went
down
into
the
Rocky
Valley
,
earnest
to
try
conclusions
with
God
's
promise
,
and
sure
of
proving
it
true
.
He
had
fasted
all
day
,
and
he
had
prayed
all
day
;
not
necessarily
kneeling
and
repeating
set
forms
,
but
in
the
whole
attitude
of
his
mind
;
and
in
the
twilight
when
work
was
over
he
went
down
with
three
of
us
,
myself
and
two
others
,
a
certain
that
the
truth
of
the
Word
would
be
made
manifest
,
and
that
he
could
remove
rocks
by
FAITH
.
He
prayed
to
God
to
grant
us
this
manifestation
—
to
redeem
His
promise
.
He
was
full
of
faith
:
not
a
shadow
of
doubt
chilled
or
slacked
him
.
As
he
stood
there
in
the
softening
twilight
,
with
his
arms
raised
above
his
head
and
his
face
turned
up
to
the
sky
,
his
countenance
glowed
as
Moses
'
of
old
.
He
seemed
inspired
,
transported
beyond
himself
,
beyond
humanity
.
He
commanded
the
stone
to
move
in
God
's
name
,
and
because
Christ
had
promised
:
and
we
knelt
beside
him
,
not
so
much
trembling
as
exalted
,
feeling
in
the
very
presence
of
the
Divine
,
and
that
He
would
do
unto
us
according
to
His
word
.
But
the
rock
stood
still
;
and
a
stonecchat
went
and
perched
on
it
.
Another
time
he
took
up
a
viper
in
his
hand
,
quoting
the
psalm
,
“
They
shall
take
up
serpents
.
”
But
the
beast
stung
him
,
and
he
was
ill
for
days
after
.
So
,
when
he
ate
a
handful
of
the
berries
of
the
black
briony
,
and
all
but
died
of
the
poison
.
Yet
he
had
handled
the
viper
and
eaten
the
berries
in
faith
as
simple
and
sincere
as
when
he
had
commanded
the
stone
in
the
Rocky
Valley
to
move
.
When
the
doctor
was
called
in
,
and
Joshua
told
him
,
boylike
,
what
he
had
done
and
why
and
in
what
spirit
,
he
shook
his
head
gravely
,
and
told
his
mother
he
was
mad
and
had
better
be
looked
after
.
“
No
,
no
,
not
mad
,
sir
,
because
I
believe
the
Bible
,
and
have
determined
to
lead
a
life
after
Christ
's
word
and
example
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Tut
!
rubbish
!
”
said
the
doctor
.
“
What
you
've
got
to
do
,
my
lad
,
is
to
plane
your
wood
smooth
and
make
your
joists
firm
.
All
this
religious
folly
of
yours
has
no
sense
in
it
.
I
tell
you
it
will
upset
your
brain
,
and
that
you
are
mad
now
,
and
will
be
madder
if
you
do
n't
pull
up
in
time
.
”
“
So
Festus
said
to
St.
Paul
,
sir
;
but
he
was
not
mad
,
nor
am
I
.
”
“
But
what
do
you
want
to
do
,
jackass
?
”
said
the
doctor
with
a
good-humoured
kind
of
impatience
.
“
What
's
amiss
with
your
poor
foolish
head
that
you
ca
n't
take
things
easy
?
”
“
I
want
to
find
out
which
is
true
,
sir
,
”
answered
Joshua
:
“
the
Bible
which
ordains
certain
ways
of
life
;
or
the
Christian
world
which
disobeys
them
.
If
Christ
was
God
,
there
is
but
one
way
for
us
all
.
He
could
not
have
left
us
an
imperfect
example
to
be
mended
here
and
there
as
we
think
best
for
the
convenience
of
society
.
He
is
God
or
man
;
for
,
as
things
are
,
it
is
not
God
and
man
—
Christ
and
Christians
;
and
I
want
to
know
which
is
the
truth
.
”
“
Take
my
advice
,
”
said
the
doctor
kindly
;
“
put
all
these
thoughts
out
of
your
head
as
quickly
as
you
can
.
Get
some
work
to
do
in
a
new
part
of
the
country
,
fall
in
love
with
some
nice
girl
,
and
marry
as
soon
as
you
can
make
a
home
for
her
.
Give
over
reading
the
Bible
for
a
time
,
and
look
up
some
pleasant
stories
and
books
of
travel
,
and
the
like
;
and
leave
off
eating
poison-berries
and
handling
vipers
.
That
's
the
only
life
for
you
,
depend
upon
it
;
and
though
I
am
no
theologian
,
I
venture
to
say
,
that
working
honestly
in
that
state
of
life
to
which
it
has
pleased
God
to
call
you
,
going
to
church
,
kneeling
out
of
beershops
,
and
living
like
your
respectable
neighbours
,
is
a
far
better
kind
of
thing
than
all
this
high-flown
religion
you
are
hankering
after
.
Depend
upon
it
,
our
best
religion
is
to
do
our
duty
,
and
to
leave
the
care
of
our
souls
to
those
whose
business
it
is
to
look
after
them
.
”
“
Thank
you
,
sir
;
you
mean
kindly
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
But
God
has
given
me
other
thoughts
,
and
I
must
obey
them
if
I
would
not
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
.
”
And
the
doctor
said
afterwards
to
Mr.
Grand
,
that
he
was
quite
touched
at
the
lad
's
sweetness
and
wrong-headedness
combined
,
and
would
have
given
much
to
have
been
able
to
send
him
there
and
then
to
a
lunatic
asylum
,
where
he
might
have
been
taken
care
of
for
a
time
and
put
to
rights
.
The
failure
of
these
trials
of
faith
perplexed
us
all
,
and
profoundly
afflicted
Joshua
.
Not
many
men
have
gone
through
greater
spiritual
anguish
,
I
should
suppose
,
than
he
did
at
this
time
.
It
was
like
the
sudden
darkening
of
the
sun
to
him
,
and
the
doubt
of
himself
which
it
brought
was
nearer
madness
than
his
simple
faith
had
been
.
He
passed
through
a
bad
time
;
when
his
soul
went
down
into
the
Valley
of
the
Shadow
,
if
ever
man
's
did
!
But
in
time
he
came
out
into
the
light
again
.
He
knew
his
own
sincerity
,
and
his
entire
acceptance
of
the
Word
of
God
and
of
the
Divinity
of
Christ
;
and
he
could
not
think
that
God
had
met
his
prayer
with
a
rebuff
.
God
,
who
knew
the
heart
,
would
he
felt
sure
have
accepted
his
endeavour
,
had
that
endeavour
been
within
the
scope
of
His
plan
for
humanity
.
It
was
the
first
struggle
between
Faith
and
Law
,
Revelation
and
Nature
,
through
which
every
inquiring
mind
has
to
pass
;
and
it
was
a
bitter
one
.
He
said
nothing
of
these
thoughts
for
many
weeks
.
He
was
not
a
youth
who
jumped
to
conclusions
,
but
rather
one
who
pondered
well
,
and
who
let
his
thoughts
ripen
;
but
at
last
he
spoke
one
evening
,
when
we
were
gathered
together
as
usual
,
after
work
.
“
Friends
,
”
he
said
,
“
it
seems
to
me
—
indeed
,
I
think
we
must
all
see
it
now
—
that
His
Word
is
not
to
be
accepted
literally
,
and
not
to
be
acted
on
in
all
its
details
.
The
laws
of
Nature
are
supreme
,
and
even
faith
cannot
change
them
.
Can
it
be
,
”
he
then
said
solemnly
,
“
that
much
of
that
Word
is
a
parable
?
—
that
Christ
was
truly
as
he
says
of
Himself
,
the
corner
stone
,
but
not
the
whole
building
?
—
and
that
we
have
to
carry
on
the
work
in
His
spirit
,
but
in
our
own
way
,
and
not
merely
to
try
and
repeat
His
acts
?
”
I
do
not
think
we
were
prepared
for
such
a
speech
.
We
looked
at
one
another
uneasily
,
even
the
dimmest
of
us
seeing
something
of
the
conclusions
to
which
such
a
principle
would
lead
us
,
and
forecasting
the
rudderless
wandering
of
souls
that
would
ensue
.
But
Joshua
would
say
no
more
.
He
bade
us
good-night
soon
after
,
and
it
was
long
before
we
renewed
the
subject
.
We
all
felt
that
he
had
broken
dangerous
ground
;
for
had
we
not
set
out
with
the
determination
to
realise
Christ
in
our
lives
,
founded
on
our
conviction
of
the
literalness
,
the
absolute
uncompromising
truth
of
every
word
in
the
Gospels
?
—
a
truth
not
to
be
explained
away
,
or
paraphrased
in
any
manner
of
worldly
wisdom
or
expediency
;
but
to
be
accepted
crude
,
naked
,
entire
as
it
is
set
down
?
It
was
one
thing
,
or
the
other
—
Christ
or
society
,
the
Bible
or
the
world
.
It
could
not
be
both
;
but
once
admit
the
right
of
choice
,
of
criticism
,
and
where
was
then
our
standard
?
Yet
again
,
what
could
we
make
of
that
text
about
faith
,
when
we
had
proved
it
for
ourselves
and
found
it
wanting
?
And
if
wrong
in
ever
so
small
a
matter
,
was
not
our
theory
of
absolute
infallibility
at
an
end
?
But
if
absolute
infallibility
was
at
an
end
,
was
not
that
making
Christ
a
mere
temporary
teacher
,
local
and
for
the
day
—
not
universal
and
for
all
time
;
and
God
a
bit
by
bit
worker
?
And
if
so
,
and
even
Gospel
revelation
is
not
final
,
where
then
exists
the
absolute
necessity
of
acceptance
?
Yet
,
if
we
came
to
this
conclusion
—
sorrowfullest
of
all
!
—
we
must
relinquish
all
anchorage
everywhere
,
and
do
our
best
to
piece
together
a
theory
of
life
for
ourselves
,
glad
if
any
of
the
broken
fragments
of
faith
might
still
serve
us
.
But
we
were
far
off
,
as
yet
,
from
any
such
conclusions
;
and
the
Christ
life
,
and
the
Gospel
narrative
,
and
the
need
laid
on
us
all
to
follow
in
the
Master
's
steps
,
and
believe
lieve
as
He
taught
,
and
do
as
He
did
,
were
still
the
cardinal
points
of
Joshua
's
creed
,
and
the
object
of
his
endeavour
:
and
,
with
him
,
of
ours
.
CHAPTER
III
.
IT
was
after
this
that
we
noticed
a
certain
restlessness
in
Joshua
.
He
seemed
to
feel
the
narrowness
of
his
life
down
at
such
a
place
as
Trevalga
,
where
a
man
must
work
hard
to
keep
body
and
soul
together
,
and
keep
them
very
poorly
when
he
has
done
his
best
;
and
where
he
cannot
get
forward
save
by
his
own
thoughts
.
There
is
nothing
for
an
energetic-minded
young
man
to
do
there
after
his
day
's
work
is
over
.
No
lectures
,
no
mechanics
'
institute
,
no
library
;
only
a
few
books
to
be
borrowed
here
and
there
by
chance
.
And
Boscastle
and
Trevenna
are
no
farther
advanced
;
nor
was
even
Camelford
in
those
days
.
And
then
Camelford
is
full
five
miles
away
,
across
a
wild
whisht
country
that
does
not
invite
much
night
walking
.
To
be
sure
there
are
the
cliffs
and
the
sea
,
the
waterfall
up
at
Knighton
's
Kieve
,
the
rocks
and
the
old
ruins
at
Tintagel
—
King
Arthur
's
Castle
—
which
fill
the
imagination
.
But
imagination
does
very
well
for
extreme
youth
,
as
looking
back
does
for
old
age
:
a
man
coming
to
his
prime
wants
action
.
An
opening
however
came
in
time
,
and
Joshua
had
an
offer
to
go
up
to
London
to
follow
his
trade
at
a
large
house
in
the
City
;
which
he
accepted
;
and
got
me
a
job
as
well
,
that
I
might
be
alongside
of
him
.
For
we
were
like
brothers
;
he
,
the
elder
,
the
better
,
the
leader
;
and
I
,
the
younger
,
the
led
.
And
neither
was
afraid
of
work
;
or
,
let
me
add
,
afraid
for
our
work
.
We
were
skilled
in
our
trade
so
far
as
we
could
be
without
first-rate
teaching
,
having
made
it
a
point
of
duty
and
honour
both
,
that
we
should
never
give
folks
occasion
to
talk
of
us
as
babbling
saunterers
,
who
took
to
the
Bible
because
they
could
not
manage
the
plane
and
the
saw
.
A
few
days
before
he
went
,
Joshua
happened
to
be
coming
out
of
his
father
's
workshop
just
as
Mr.
Grand
was
passing
,
driving
the
neat
pair-horse
phaeton
he
had
lately
bought
.
“
Well
,
Joshua
,
and
how
are
you
doing
?
”
said
the
parson
,
pulling
up
.
I
dare
say
he
was
a
good
man
when
he
was
at
home
,
but
Mr.
Grand
was
not
fit
to
be
a
parish
priest
—
at
all
events
,
not
of
such
a
place
as
Trevalga
.
He
might
have
made
a
fine
general
officer
,
or
a
dignitary
in
a
field
where
he
had
nothing
to
do
with
the
poor
;
but
among
a
lot
of
half-starving
,
uneducated
creatures
,
such
as
you
find
in
a
by-kind
of
coast
hamlet
in
Cornwall
,
he
was
worse
than
useless
.
He
had
no
love
for
the
poor
,
and
no
pity
:
he
always
called
them
“
the
common
people
,
”
and
spoke
of
them
disdainfully
,
as
if
they
were
different
creatures
from
gentry
.
I
question
if
he
allowed
us
the
same
kind
of
souls
;
and
I
do
know
that
he
denied
equality
of
condition
after
death
,
and
quoted
the
text
of
“
many
mansions
”
in
proof
of
his
theory
of
exclusion
.
He
was
a
man
of
good
family
himself
,
and
his
wife
was
the
daughter
of
a
bishop
;
he
was
rich
too
,
and
looked
to
be
made
dean
or
bishop
himself
by
time
.
So
you
see
,
Trevalga
was
only
a
stopping-place
with
him
,
where
he
just
put
off
the
time
the
best
way
he
could
till
he
saw
his
way
to
better
things
;
and
did
n't
care
a
rush
for
any
one
in
the
place
.
However
,
he
drew
up
at
seeing
Joshua
,
and
asked
him
how
he
was
;
and
then
said
:
“
And
why
have
you
not
been
to
church
lately
,
my
man
?
”
as
if
Joshua
had
been
in
the
habit
of
going
,
and
had
failed
only
of
late
.
This
was
Mr.
Grand
's
way
.
He
never
knew
anything
about
his
people
.
That
gave
them
to
think
,
you
see
,
that
he
held
himself
too
high
to
notice
what
such
poor
wretches
might
be
about
.
God
forgive
me
if
I
misjudge
him
!
“
Well
,
sir
,
”
said
Joshua
,
“
I
do
n't
go
to
church
,
you
know
.
”
“
No
?
have
you
joined
the
chapel
then
?
Is
that
your
latest
fad
,
Joshua
?
”
“
No
,
sir
;
neither
church
nor
chapel
,
”
answered
Joshua
.
“
What
!
a
new
light
on
your
own
account
,
hey
?
”
and
he
laughed
as
if
he
mocked
him
.
“
No
sir
,
only
a
seeker
.
”
“
The
old
paths
not
good
enough
for
you
?
—
the
light
that
has
lightened
the
Gentiles
these
eighteen
hundred
years
and
more
not
pure
enough
for
an
unwashed
Cornish
lad
,
planing
wood
at
a
carpenter
's
bench
and
not
able
to
speak
two
consecutive
words
of
good
English
?
”
“
I
must
answer
for
my
conscience
to
God
,
sir
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
And
your
clergyman
,
appointed
by
God
and
the
State
to
be
your
guide
,
what
of
him
?
Has
he
no
authority
in
his
own
parish
?
”
cried
Mr.
Grand
warmly
.
“
Does
it
never
strike
you
,
my
fine
fellow
,
that
in
thinking
for
yourself
,
as
you
call
it
,
you
are
flying
in
the
face
both
of
Divine
ordinances
and
the
laws
of
man
,
and
that
you
are
entering
on
the
sin
of
schism
on
the
one
hand
,
and
of
rebellion
on
the
other
?
”
“
Look
here
,
sir
,
”
said
Joshua
with
earnestness
,
but
quite
respectfully
;
“
if
I
speak
plainly
,
I
mean
it
for
no
offence
;
but
my
heart
burns
within
me
and
I
must
speak
out
.
I
deny
your
appointment
as
a
God-given
leader
of
souls
.
The
Church
is
but
the
old
priesthood
as
it
existed
in
the
days
of
our
Lord
,
and
is
,
as
much
as
that
was
,
the
blind
leading
the
blind
.
There
are
good
and
kind
gentlemen
among
you
,
but
not
Christians
according
to
Christ
.
I
see
no
sacrifice
of
the
world
,
no
brotherhood
with
the
poor
—
”
“
The
poor
!
”
interrupted
Mr.
Grand
disdainfully
;
“
what
would
you
have
,
you
young
fool
?
The
poor
have
the
laws
of
their
country
to
protect
them
,
and
the
Gospel
preached
to
them
for
their
salvation
.
”
“
Yes
,
and
in
preaching
that
—
that
is
,
in
giving
two
full
services
on
Sundays
,
and
reading
the
marriage-service
and
the
burial-service
and
the
like
of
that
when
you
are
wanted
—
you
discharge
your
conscience
of
all
other
obligations
towards
them
,
and
think
you
have
done
enough
.
You
never
seem
to
remember
that
when
Christ
preached
the
Gospel
to
the
poor
it
was
to
make
them
equal
with
the
rich
.
Why
,
sir
,
the
poor
of
our
day
are
the
lepers
of
Christ
's
;
and
who
among
you
,
Christian
priests
,
consorts
with
them
?
Who
ranks
the
man
above
his
station
,
or
the
soul
above
the
man
?
”
“
Now
,
we
have
come
to
it
!
”
cried
Mr.
Grand
.
“
I
thought
I
should
touch
the
secret
spring
at
last
!
And
you
would
like
us
to
associate
with
you
as
equals
?
—
Is
that
it
,
Joshua
?
Gentlemen
and
common
men
hob-and-nob
together
,
and
no
distinctions
made
?
You
to
ride
in
our
carriages
,
and
perhaps
marry
our
daughters
?
”
He
had
his
little
girl
of
six
or
so
in
the
phaeton
with
him
;
a
pretty
little
maid
that
used
to
go
about
dressed
in
blue
velvet
and
a
white
feather
in
her
hat
.
“
That
's
just
it
,
sir
.
You
are
gentlemen
,
as
you
say
,
but
not
the
followers
of
Christ
.
If
you
were
,
you
would
have
no
carriages
to
ride
in
,
and
your
daughters
would
be
what
Martha
and
Mary
and
Lydia
and
Dorcas
were
,
women
of
no
station
,
bent
only
on
serving
God
and
the
saints
,
and
their
title
to
ladyhood
founded
on
their
degrees
of
goodness
.
”
“
Going
in
for
socialism
,
Joshua
?
”
said
Mr.
Grand
,
continuing
his
bantering
tone
.
“
A
little
radicalism
,
a
little
methodism
,
and
a
great
deal
of
self-assurance
—
that
seems
to
me
to
be
about
where
you
are
!
”
“
Going
in
for
no
isms
at
all
,
sir
,
”
said
Joshua
.
“
Only
for
the
truth
as
it
is
in
Christ
!
”
“
Shall
I
tell
you
what
would
be
the
very
thing
for
you
?
”
said
Mr.
Grand
quite
quietly
.
“
Yes
,
sir
;
what
?
”
asked
Joshua
eagerly
.
“
This
whip
across
your
shoulders
!
—
and
,
by
George
,
if
I
were
not
a
clergyman
I
would
lay
it
there
,
with
a
will
!
”
cried
the
parson
,
half
rising
from
his
seat
.
No
one
had
ever
seen
Joshua
angry
since
he
had
grown
up
.
His
temper
was
proverbially
sweet
,
and
his
self-control
was
a
marvel
.
But
this
time
he
lost
both
.
It
was
not
so
much
as
a
man
,
because
of
the
insult
to
himself
;
he
would
have
borne
that
meekly
enough
;
but
it
was
the
feeling
that
the
Sacred
Thing
had
been
mocked
in
him
which
drove
him
into
sudden
anger
:
an
anger
so
violent
and
so
sudden
as
to
take
the
clergyman
fairly
aback
.
“
God
shall
smite
thee
,
thou
whited
wall
!
”
he
cried
with
vehemence
.
“
Is
this
your
boasted
leadership
of
souls
?
—
this
your
learned
solving
of
difficulties
?
—
this
your
fatherly
guidance
of
your
flock
?
‘Feed
my
lambs’
—
with
what
?
with
stones
for
bread
—
with
insult
for
sincerity
—
with
the
gentleman
's
disdain
for
the
poor
thought
of
the
artisan
—
with
class
insolence
for
spiritual
difficulties
culties
!
Of
a
surety
,
Christ
has
to
come
again
to
repeat
the
work
which
you
priests
and
churches
have
destroyed
and
made
of
no
effect
,
and
to
strip
you
of
your
ill-used
power
.
You
are
the
gentleman
,
sir
,
and
I
am
only
a
poor
carpenter
's
son
;
but
I
stand
against
you
now
—
man
against
man
—
soul
against
soul
—
and
I
spurn
you
with
a
deeper
and
more
solemn
scorn
than
you
have
spurned
me
!
”
He
lifted
his
hand
as
he
said
this
,
with
a
strange
and
passionate
gesture
,
then
turned
himself
about
and
went
in
;
and
Mr.
Grand
drove
off
more
his
ill-wisher
than
before
;
as
perhaps
was
only
natural
.
And
yet
he
rightly
deserved
all
he
had
got
.
This
was
one
of
the
stories
that
got
bruited
abroad
to
Joshua
's
discredit
.
Some
said
he
had
struck
the
parson
—
some
that
he
had
been
monstrously
and
unjustifiably
impertinent
;
and
the
tale
got
bandied
about
as
a
kind
of
dramatic
scarecrow
—
a
kind
of
logical
warning
to
young
men
given
to
think
for
themselves
,
as
to
what
would
become
of
them
if
they
shook
themselves
free
of
authority
.
“
You
'll
be
as
bad
as
Joshua
to
Parson
Grand
,
”
was
a
phrase
I
myself
heard
more
than
once
.
But
here
is
the
story
just
as
it
happened
;
and
I
put
it
to
my
readers
—
was
Joshua
so
very
much
to
blame
,
all
things
considered
—
motives
,
feelings
,
spiritual
disappointment
,
and
that
inner
dignity
of
Man
which
overpowers
all
social
differences
when
the
fit
moment
comes
?
I
can
only
say
that
never
,
to
the
last
,
could
he
be
got
to
see
that
he
had
done
wrong
,
and
never
,
to
the
last
,
could
I
say
it
or
see
it
either
.
“
No
,
”
he
used
to
say
,
“
some
kinds
of
anger
are
righteous
;
and
this
was
of
them
.
”
But
Mr.
Grand
made
old
Davidson
,
Joshua
's
father
,
suffer
for
his
son
;
for
he
took
away
his
own
custom
from
him
,
and
did
him
what
harm
in
the
neighbourhood
a
gentleman
's
ill-word
can
do
a
working
man
.
It
was
a
bad
thing
for
the
old
man
.
The
Trevalga
schools
were
being
built
,
and
St.
Juliot
's
church
was
under
repair
,
and
Davidson
,
as
the
best
workman
thereabouts
,
would
have
been
sure
to
have
been
head
man
at
both
jobs
.
But
Mr.
Grand
,
he
put
his
spoke
in
that
wheel
;
and
one
day
when
I
took
courage
to
speak
and
plead
,
all
I
got
was
a
recommendation
to
mind
my
own
business
,
and
not
interfere
where
I
was
not
wanted
.
And
then
as
if
in
consideration
—
a
kind
of
condescending
consideration
—
for
my
being
a
“
canter
,
”
Mr.
Grand
wound
up
with
saying
that
I
must
see
he
was
justified
according
to
the
law
of
God
.
When
I
challenged
him
hotly
,
I
daresay
intemperately
,
I
daresay
even
impertinently
,
for
his
proof
—
for
you
see
I
was
but
a
poor
uneducated
artisan
,
and
he
was
a
gentleman
and
a
scholar
—
he
laughed
,
and
said
he
did
not
argue
with
carpenters
'
lads
;
and
when
I
answered
back
,
he
ordered
me
out
of
the
house
,
saying
I
was
as
pestilent
a
fellow
as
my
friend
;
—
I
replying
angrily
that
I
did
not
think
the
pestilence
rested
with
Joshua
.
Which
ended
the
interview
;
not
without
loss
of
temper
and
dignity
on
both
sides
,
and
no
good
done
to
anyone
.
The
night
before
we
left
for
London
Joshua
had
a
kind
of
vision
or
waking
dream
,
which
he
told
me
as
we
were
on
our
way
to
Launceston
,
walking
up
the
hill
from
Boscastle
,
while
the
omnibus
toiled
after
us
.
He
was
on
the
cliff
by
Long
Island
,
when
suddenly
he
seemed
to
be
caught
away
to
a
wide
plain
,
where
many
men
were
gathered
.
In
the
centre
of
the
plain
was
a
hill
,
like
Brown
Willy
out
there
by
Camelford
,
and
on
this
hill
sat
two
kingly
figures
who
ruled
over
the
swarming
multitudes
below
.
They
sat
together
hand
in
hand
,
and
he
saw
that
they
were
in
some
mysterious
manner
inseparable
.
The
one
was
dressed
as
a
high
priest
,
and
was
Ecclesiastical
Christianity
;
the
other
as
a
king
,
and
was
Society
;
and
both
were
stern
,
forbidding
,
and
oppressive
.
The
only
persons
to
whom
they
showed
favour
were
the
well-dressed
and
the
subservient
—
rich
people
dressed
in
gold
and
jewels
,
and
the
poor
and
undistinguished
who
were
submissive
and
conforming
;
who
accepted
all
that
the
high
priest
taught
without
questioning
the
truth
of
any
part
,
and
who
obeyed
what
the
king
ordained
without
even
so
much
as
a
wish
to
resist
.
These
were
called
Believing
Christians
and
Respectable
Members
of
Society
;
and
,
in
consideration
of
their
obedience
,
both
the
high
priest
and
the
king
smiled
on
them
,
and
spoke
them
fair
.
Yet
they
were
scarcely
friendly
to
their
adherents
.
The
one
surrounded
them
with
the
most
monstrous
shapes
of
demons
cast
by
magic
lanterns
and
in
every
way
unreal
,
of
which
they
were
in
continual
fear
—
GOD
,
whom
yet
they
labelled
“
Our
Father
,
”
and
the
“
God
of
Love
,
”
the
most
terrible
looking
demon
of
all
;
and
the
more
they
were
afraid
,
and
the
more
cruel
they
believed
Our
Father
to
be
,
the
more
Ecclesiastical
Christianity
was
content
.
The
other
bound
them
round
and
round
with
chains
and
swathing
bands
,
till
they
were
scarcely
able
to
move
or
breathe
.
And
when
they
submitted
to
the
stifling
torture
with
a
good
grace
—
some
of
them
even
drawing
the
links
tighter
,
and
buckling
up
the
thongs
more
home
of
their
own
accord
,
and
all
declaring
the
pattern
of
each
particular
bandage
to
have
been
sent
down
direct
from
heaven
,
and
in
no
wise
invented
as
an
experiment
by
Society
—
then
the
king
smiled
on
them
kindly
,
and
praised
them
with
many
flattering
words
;
and
the
poor
atrophied
wretches
were
quite
content
with
the
barren
honour
of
their
reward
.
At
the
feet
of
these
two
rulers
lay
three
figures
cruelly
bound
and
tortured
.
They
were
Truth
,
bearing
in
her
arms
her
young
child
Science
,
Freedom
,
and
Humanity
.
All
three
were
stretched
on
racks
made
in
the
form
of
a
cross
,
which
gave
in
the
eyes
of
the
multitude
a
kind
of
symbolic
sanction
to
their
torture
.
The
two
rulers
were
for
ever
trying
to
gag
them
,
so
that
they
should
not
speak
;
but
they
could
not
quite
succeed
;
and
every
now
and
then
they
uttered
words
,
loud
and
clear
as
the
sound
of
a
silver
trumpet
,
that
stirred
the
multitude
below
,
and
set
men
running
hither
and
thither
,
some
shaking
themselves
free
of
the
bonds
in
which
both
Christianity
and
Society
had
bound
them
.
And
when
they
spoke
,
the
high
priest
and
the
king
and
their
worshippers
,
all
the
well-dressed
little
kings
and
poorer
conformists
,
buffeted
them
;
and
would
have
killed
them
if
they
could
.
Ill-treated
as
they
were
however
,
each
tortured
being
had
a
small
knot
of
adherents
.
Round
Truth
,
bearing
her
young
child
,
Science
,
gathered
men
of
imposing
aspect
—
men
of
authority
,
of
large
brains
,
of
temperate
nature
,
of
clear
and
candid
thought
.
There
were
some
among
them
of
such
unquestionable
grandeur
,
that
even
the
mob
of
Believing
Christians
and
Respectable
Members
of
Society
paid
them
a
certain
cold
,
deprecatory
reverence
as
they
passed
;
while
Ecclesiastical
Christianity
tried
to
reconcile
their
statements
with
his
own
creed
,
hiding
his
magic
lantern
painted
with
demons
and
that
all-devouring
hell
with
which
he
terrified
the
multitudes
,
when
he
spoke
to
them
saying
,
“
See
,
there
is
no
such
great
difference
between
us
after
all
!
I
do
not
contradict
you
.
Say
what
you
will
about
the
sun
,
and
the
age
of
the
earth
,
the
relations
of
the
universe
,
and
the
gradual
evolution
of
man
,
nothing
that
you
advance
disturbs
me
.
I
only
supplement
you
,
and
add
the
divine
grace
of
spiritual
truth
,
which
is
beyond
your
analysis
.
You
are
right
and
I
am
right
;
let
us
be
friends
and
brothers
.
”
Society
was
less
concerned
about
these
philosophers
.
They
were
for
the
most
part
swathed
in
his
bands
tight
enough
;
some
for
pre-occupation
with
other
matters
,
some
for
expediency
,
some
for
dread
of
the
unknown
,
and
some
for
conviction
;
and
,
for
the
rest
,
he
let
his
twin-brother
,
the
high
priest
,
fight
his
battles
as
he
best
could
.
Round
the
prostrate
form
of
Freedom
,
scarred
,
gashed
,
bleeding
,
fettered
,
stood
only
a
few
.
Even
the
men
of
science
were
afraid
of
this
huge
giant
,
this
son
of
the
old
gods
,
whose
might
no
one
had
been
able
to
calculate
should
he
once
arise
in
his
strength
.
All
,
save
his
own
few
lovers
,
chiefly
of
the
poorest
class
,
looked
on
him
with
dread
,
and
prophesied
evil
days
for
the
world
should
he
ever
get
free
of
his
bonds
and
the
symbolic
constraint
of
the
cross
.
But
his
small
band
of
lovers
,
themselves
either
martyrs
or
victims
,
worked
incessantly
at
his
deliverance
;
every
now
and
then
getting
one
link
loosened
here
and
another
there
,
knowing
that
in
time
he
would
with
their
help
shake
himself
free
of
all
his
chains
,
and
stand
up
before
the
world
,
the
great-hearted
leader
,
the
glad
possession
of
every
man
and
woman
that
breathes
.
The
third
figure
was
the
most
deeply
oppressed
.
The
face
was
hidden
,
but
it
was
a
lovely
form
,
vilely
clad
in
disfiguring
garments
,
and
bespattered
with
dirt
that
had
been
flung
at
it
by
the
high
priest
and
Society
in
concert
.
On
its
nailed
hands
hung
the
weeping
and
the
miserable
;
and
no
one
was
rejected
or
bidden
back
.
The
most
miserable
sinner
that
crawled
—
the
thief
,
the
murderer
,
the
harlot
—
it
gathered
them
all
around
it
;
its
own
bound
hands
doing
their
checked
best
to
free
them
from
their
stains
.
Pleasure
and
pain
and
sin
and
virtue
all
rested
equally
on
its
large
breast
,
and
to
all
it
gave
full
sympathy
and
understanding
.
It
condemned
no
one
;
only
it
refused
obedience
to
the
high
priest
and
the
king
.
As
the
dreamer
looked
,
it
slowly
turned
its
face
to
the
sky
:
and
Joshua
recognised
in
the
soiled
and
vilified
face
of
Humanity
—
the
face
of
Christ
.
Suddenly
standing
side
by
side
with
the
magnificently
attired
pontiff
,
this
Ecclesiastical
Christianity
,
oppressor
of
Truth
,
slanderer
of
Humanity
,
tyrant
of
Freedom
,
ruler
of
the
churches
,
and
through
them
of
the
consciences
of
men
;
side
by
side
too
,
with
his
twin-brother
Society
,
his
fellow-tyrant
and
oppressor
,
was
a
man
coarsely
clad
in
rude
garments
,
a
man
of
uncultured
speech
,
of
unconventional
manners
,
but
of
a
noble
aspect
,
whose
face
was
the
face
of
an
enthusiast
who
believed
in
himself
,
and
in
whose
self-reliance
were
his
sole
credentials
.
His
companions
were
the
same
as
those
who
had
gathered
round
the
crucified
form
of
Humanity
.
All
the
poor
and
the
miserable
,
the
leprous
,
the
sinners
,
the
outcast
,
and
those
“
sinless
Cains
”
of
history
,
those
men
who
had
lived
to
do
good
to
their
generation
,
and
who
had
been
stoned
and
crucified
and
blasphemed
and
cursed
as
their
reward
—
they
were
all
clustered
closely
round
him
.
He
had
nothing
to
do
with
that
regal
Society
,
that
mitred
Christianity
.
He
loudly
proclaimed
his
antagonism
to
both
,
and
drew
to
him
only
such
as
they
spurned
and
rejected
.
He
pointed
to
the
high
priest
:
“
Look
,
”
he
said
to
Joshua
,
“
what
they
have
made
of
me
;
of
an
unskilled
artisan
,
no
schoolman
even
of
his
day
,
and
a
vagrant
preacher
living
by
charity
,
they
have
made
a
king
;
of
a
man
,
a
god
;
of
a
preacher
of
universal
tolerance
,
the
head
of
a
persecuting
religion
;
of
a
life
,
a
dogma
;
of
an
example
,
a
church
.
Here
am
I
,
Jesus
the
Nazarene
,
the
son
of
Joseph
and
Mary
,
as
I
lived
on
earth
;
poor
,
unlearned
,
a
plebeian
,
and
a
socialist
,
at
war
with
the
gentlemen
and
ladies
of
my
society
,
the
enemy
of
forms
,
of
creeds
,
of
the
priestly
class
of
respectabilities
;
and
there
you
see
my
modern
travesty
,
this
jewelled
,
ornate
,
exclusive
Ecclesiastical
Christianity
,
who
is
the
ancient
Pharisee
revived
.
To
you
,
and
to
such
as
you
,
is
given
the
task
of
bringing
men
back
to
the
creed
that
I
preached
.
And
if
in
securing
the
essence
of
the
creed
you
forget
the
Founder
,
and
call
my
doctrine
by
another
name
than
mine
,
so
be
it
.
The
world
wants
the
thing
,
not
the
label
;
and
Christ-likeness
,
not
Ecclesiastical
Christianity
,
is
the
best
Saviour
of
men
.
”
As
he
said
this
the
whole
vision
seemed
to
fade
away
,
and
the
voice
of
Peggy
Bray
,
whining
and
drunk
,
with
Mr.
Grand
's
deep
tones
of
angry
disgust
,
broke
the
quiet
evening
stillness
,
and
brought
Joshua
back
to
the
realities
of
life
.
“
Something
seemed
to
bid
me
,
”
he
said
,
when
he
told
me
the
story
:
“
I
ran
off
over
the
down
as
fast
as
I
could
,
and
caught
Peggy
on
the
Tintagel
Road
.
She
was
drunk
,
dirty
,
and
crying
.
I
took
her
by
the
hand
.
‘Peggy
,
woman
,
’
I
said
,
‘dry
your
eyes
,
and
come
along
with
me.’
I
spoke
so
sudden
,
I
startled
her
,
and
so
a
little
sobered
her
.
Then
I
took
her
by
the
arm
and
led
her
to
mother
's
cottage
.
‘Here
,
mother
,
’
I
said
;
‘here
is
a
bit
of
Christ-work
for
you
to
do
.
Take
this
poor
creature
,
in
her
dirt
and
vileness
as
she
is
,
and
cleanse
her
.
You
believe
and
know
that
God
's
love
did
that
for
the
world
:
we
are
less
pure
than
Christ
,
but
we
hold
ourselves
too
fine
to
follow
His
example
in
that
!
Love
her
,
mother
;
she
is
your
sister
—
and
maybe
your
love
can
heal
her.’
Poor
mother
!
she
did
n't
like
the
task
.
She
cried
over
it
,
and
said
that
I
put
a
burden
on
her
she
could
not
bear
;
but
I
held
to
my
point
,
”
said
Joshua
,
with
a
glowing
face
;
“
and
she
yielded
.
Peggy
stayed
in
our
house
for
over
a
month
,
and
mother
was
ill-called
for
her
work
.
Not
that
she
much
cared
,
I
fancy
.
I
do
n't
know
,
however
,
whether
she
did
or
not
;
she
never
said
much
.
And
though
Peggy
broke
out
again
and
went
to
the
bad
as
before
,
yet
a
month
's
experience
of
loving-kindness
and
cleanly
living
was
something
.
At
all
events
,
it
was
practical
Christianity
;
and
if
it
did
Peggy
herself
little
or
no
good
permanently
,
it
was
the
right
thing
to
do
,
and
mother
was
so
far
benefited
.
”
CHAPTER
IV
.
IN
London
a
new
view
of
life
opened
to
Joshua
altogether
.
The
first
thing
that
struck
him
in
our
workshop
was
the
avowed
infidelity
of
the
workmen
,
with
the
indifference
so
many
of
them
showed
for
any
spiritual
life
at
all
.
Having
apparently
made
up
their
minds
that
Christianity
,
as
taught
by
the
churches
and
practised
in
high
places
,
is
a
humbug
throughout
,
they
seemed
to
have
stopped
there
,
not
caring
to
go
farther
,
nor
to
find
a
truer
and
better
religion
for
themselves
.
Distrust
had
penetrated
to
their
inmost
most
souls
,
and
God
was
abandoned
because
man
had
betrayed
them
.
Some
of
the
better
class
among
them
had
become
Unitarians
;
which
gave
them
the
most
religion
with
the
least
dogma
of
all
the
sects
that
go
by
the
name
of
Christian
;
and
some
had
transferred
their
whole
passion
and
life
of
thought
and
intellectual
energy
to
science
,
finding
that
consolation
in
nature
which
they
could
not
get
from
revelation
.
But
very
few
were
what
is
called
religious
men
:
that
is
,
men
believing
in
the
Bible
,
going
to
church
on
Sundays
,
and
reverencing
the
clergy
as
men
placed
over
them
by
a
higher
power
