y fall
ill demand the services, not of these, but of earthly physicians.
They seek not the Christ-healing then; nor can they by their boasted
powers heal themselves."

Israel's theme was: Righteousness is salvation. But Jose knew not how
to define righteousness. Surely it did not mean adherence to human
creeds! It was vastly more than observance of forms! "God is a
spirit," he read; "and they that worship Him must worship Him in
spirit and in truth." Then, voicing his own comments, "Why, then, this
crass materializing of worship? Are images of Saviour, Virgin, and
Saint necessary to excite the people to devotion? Nay, would not the
healing of the sick, the restoration of sight to the blind, and the
performance of the works of the Master by us priests do more than
wooden or marble images to lead men to worship? Proof! proof! proof!
'Show us your works, and we will show you our faith,' cry the people.
'Then will we no longer sacrifice our independence of thought to the
merciless tyranny of human tradition.'" And he knew that this related
to Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Mohammedan alike.

One day a Cardinal, passing through the library, saw the diligent
student at work, and paused to inquire into his labors. "And what do
you seek, my son?" was the kindly query of the aged churchman.

"Scriptural justification for the fundamental tenets of our faith,"
Jose replied quickly, carried away by his soul's animation.

"And you find it, without doubt?"

"Nay, Father, except through what is, to me, unwarranted license and
assumption."

The Cardinal silently continued his way. But permission to translate
further from the Vatican manuscripts was that day withdrawn from
Jose.

Again the youth lapsed into his former habit of moody revery. Shackled
and restless, driven anew into himself, he increasingly poured his
turbulent thought into his journal, not for other and profane eyes to
read--hardly, either, for his own reference--but simply because he
_must_ have some outlet for the expression of his heaving mind. He
turned to it, as he had in other crises in his life, when his pent
soul cried out for some form of relief. He began to revise the record
of the impressions received on his travels with the Papal Legate. He
recorded conversations and impressions of scenes and people which his
abnormally developed reticence would not permit him to discuss
verbally with his associates. He embodied his protests against the
restriction