would never end. When daylight came the
cheerless place was cleared of its refuse--its withered roses, its
cigarette ends and its heaps of left-off clothing. Toward eight o'clock
Glory hurried back to the Orphanage, leaving Aggie and Mrs. Pincher in
charge. John had been muttering the whole night, through, but he had
never once moved and he was still unconscious.

"Good-morning, Sister!"

"Good-morning, children!"

The little faces, fresh and bright from sleep, were waiting for their
breakfast. When the meal was over Glory wrote by express to Mrs.
Callender and to the Father Superior of the Brotherhood, then put on her
bonnet and cloak and turned toward Downing Street.

* * * * *

The Prime Minister had held an early Cabinet Council that morning. It was
observed by his colleagues that he looked depressed and preoccupied. When
the business of the day was done he rose to his feet rather feebly and
said:

"My lords and gentlemen, I have long had it in mind to say
something--something of importance--and I feel the impulse to say it now.
We have been doing our best with legislation affecting the Church, to
give due reality and true life to its relation with the State. But the
longer I live the more I feel that that relation is in itself a false
one, injurious and even dangerous to both alike. Never in history, so far
as I know, and certainly never within my own experience, has it been
possible to maintain the union of Church and State without frequent
adultery and corruption. The effort to do so has resulted in manifest
impostures in sacred things, in ceremonies without spiritual
significance, and in gross travesties of the solemn, worship of God.
Speaking of our own Church, I will not disguise my belief that, but for
the good and true men who are always to be found within its pale, it
could not survive the frequent disregard of principles which lie deep in
the theory of Christianity. Its epicureanism, its regard for the
interests of the purse, its tendency to rank the administrator above the
apostle, are weeds that spring up out of the soil of its marriage with
the State. And when I think of the anomalies and inequalities of its
internal government, of its countless poor clergy, and of its lords and
princes, above all when I remember its apostolic pretensions and the
certainty that he who attempts to live within the Church the real life of
the apostles will incur the risk of that martyr