"That was in the old law, Ian," said Alister.
"You are right. Jesus only justified it—and did it."
"How then can you worship in the temple of Nature?" said Mercy.
"Just as he did. It is Nature's temple, mind, for the worship of
God, not of herself!"
"But how am I to get into it? That is what I want to know."
"The innermost places of the temple are open only to such as already worship in a greater temple; but it has courts into which any honest soul may enter."
"You wouldn't set me to study Wordsworth?"
"By no means."
"I am glad of that—though there must be more in him than I see, or you couldn't care for him so much!"
"Some of Nature's lessons you must learn before you can understand them."