ancient glories of your Church, but you will build a new church to a God
for whom you will not need to quibble or evade or apologise. Then you
will make religion the one force, and you will rally to it those great
minds whose alienation has been both your reproach and your
embarrassment. You will enlist not only the scientist but the poet--and
all between. You will have a God to whom all confess instinctively."




CHAPTER XV

THE WOMAN AT THE END OF THE PATH


He stopped, noticing that the chairs were pushed back. There was an
unmistakeable air of boredom, though one or two of the men still smoked
thoughtfully. One of these, indeed--the high church rector--even came
back with a question, to the undisguised apprehension of several
brothers.

"You have formulated a certain fashion of belief, Mr. Linford, one I
dare say appealing to minds that have not yet learned that even reason
must submit to authority; but you must admit that this revelation of God
in the human heart carries no authoritative assurance of immortality."

Bernal had been sitting in some embarrassment, dismayed at his own
vehemence, but this challenge stirred him.

"True," he answered, "but let us thank God for uncertainty, if it take