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 never inwardly justify such wrong-doing. They should also secure other positions as soon as possible, nor scruple to make the reason known. Yet a few brave and stern refusals to yield to such demands, and a few public exposures, would soon result in a statute forbidding such a system of falsehood in all its forms. But here we recognize again the need of an earthly law to support the spiritual.

Yet we must remember that it is the community that is mainly at fault. No wide-spread evil can exist without public support. The whole responsibility does not rest upon the few immediate sufferers. Their spiritual life is dwarfed, but not destroyed by a temporary yielding to the wrong under what seems a cruel