Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-17
might yet change his faith. What spirit

But any unbiased Roman Catholic,
exclaimed Mrs. Royden, would admit
that the Episcopal is the true church.
There can be no doubt whatever Of
that. ;" said Yardley, mockingly. "Wha'
is your opinion, Miss Grayson: You have
studied theology, and everything else.
"Most persons, replied the young lady,
confound theology and religion. They
have nothing in common. Many people
who are saturated with theology have nc
apprehension of religion. Hegel had the
correct idea; yet few of his own country.
men comprehended him, or can compre.
bend him. See how Spinoza was perse.
cuted. He was denounced as an atheist
because he had such unwavering faith in
God. He said truly that individual beings,
whether ideas or bodies, are but modes.
He understood; therefore he was misun-
derstood. Cresds are nothing but the ex-
preston of temperament. Every race has
the religion, as it is termed, best adapted
to it. Catholicism did good it bore fruit
in its proper day but it is no longer need
ed. What we style Christianity is only a
phase of civilization. Nobody can tell
what may be the creed of the world a
thousand years hence. They who are alive
then will probably look back on Christian
ity as Christians now look on African
fetichism."
Chow malignant YardleY is, - whispered
Rivers to Miss Pritchard, remote kins-
woman of his, to set Miss Grayson off in
this style. She certainly talks well and
sensibly but who wants to hear Hegel
and Spinoza before the third course? What
charming wife she'd make. should as
soon be married to the Aston library"
should think that you, being a jour
nalist and a literary man, !" answered Miss
Pritchard aside, "would ike learned
women"
Heavens, no Scribblers want to sink
the shop, when with women. They may
like occasionally to talk with a clever
woman, but they never want to live with
one. A woman of wide reading and de-
cided opinions is my aversion. She is, in
the long run, the most tiresome of human
beings"
While this suppressed talk was going on,
Elise Northrup, who was seated next to
Kinmont, and flirting with him briskly, was
discussing about benevolence and the duty
we owe our fellows. "There is no need, she
continued, of so much unhappiness and
suffering in the world. If we would only
observe the golden rule-and it is very
easy to observe 1.-THE earth would be a
spiritual Eden. The trouble is that we
resist our best instincts we are false to
ourselves, and false, therefore, to one an
other. Fidelity to human nature within
and without is the desideratum. We
should never say or do anything that is not
Internationally sincere"
You are too rigorous, Miss Northrup, !"
said Dr. Archer. "If your position were
established life would be altogether too
serious. The sphere of gayety would be
echpsed. Men couldn't jest; women
wouldn't firt. There would be neither
badinage nor coquetry."
$50 much the better, doctor Badinage
perverts the truth coquetry destroys faith,
A coquette is odious. Marriage has been
unhallowed by coquetry. Many women
so dupes her lover that she can't restore
his confidence as a husband"
sis that SO y" inquired Archer. 81
had thought that most wives do not try
that men and women deceive one another
so much before marriage that they are un.
willing to practice deceit after it. They
then adopt the unconditional sincerity you
advocate. which keeps them uniformly I'M
happy. You see what sincerity leads to- :"
You're scoffer, doctor, "rejoined Elise.
j." You must have been crossed in love-"
"Of course have. Have you never
heard of its?
''Never. Do tell US all about it, doc
tor" cried Miss Northrup. "Fm always
interested in affairs of the heart.
'I lost my heart, as I thought, to a
pretty girl when 1 was very young, and
proposed to her. She fatty refused me,
and 1 have adored her ever simeon that
account. 1t was a very narrow escape"
A laugh followed this sally.
For which of you, DOCTOR" quaried
Elise.
For both of US. She lost a husband,
and gained an adorer. I lost wife, but
retained my freedom"
You were really fortunate, doctor, re-
marked Miss Grayson. "You are doubt
less joking; but 1 am serious. Far more
happiness has been secured by forbearance
from marriage than by indulgence in it."
At this speech Seth Grayson, who, if he
had not been congenitally taciturn, might
have been suspected of premeditated
courtesy of silence, In order to afford his
guests ample opportunity to talk, smiled as
much commentator of his daughters
sentiment as if he had always been an an
chorite.
81 am entirely in earnest, Miss Gray
son, resumed Archer. at is better,
surely, for woman to earn mans graft
tude by rejecting him than to earn his
hatred by accepting him. There must be
a great many husbands of my acquaintance
very envious of me.
"Why, pray ?" asked Elise.
because the doctor" suggested Miss
Pritchard, sis likely to be more happily
married"
because" replied Archer, 81 am a