Conly, bridling, "thanks for the
compliment."
"It is you who make the application, Louise," he answered. "I had no
thought of doing so, and still hope you will prove your wisdom by
reconsidering and letting Mrs. Delaford know that you revoke your
decision."
"Indeed I shall not; I consider that I have no right to throw away
Isadore's fortune."
"Have you then a greater right to imperil her soul's salvation?" he asked
with solemn earnestness.
"Pshaw! what a serious thing you make of it," she exclaimed, yet with an
uneasy and troubled look.
"Uncle!" cried Calhoun in surprise, "do you not think there have been and
are some real Christians in the Romish Church?"
"No doubt of it, Cal; some who, spite of her idolatrous teachings, worship
God alone and put their trust solely in the atoning blood and imputed
righteousness of Christ. Yet who can fail to see in the picture of Babylon
the Great so graphically drawn in Revelation, a faithful portraiture of
Rome? And the command is, 'Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partaker of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
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