“You have idealized what we now see as the chancel?”
“Certainly, the place where the service is conducted.”
“May I ask what is the central feature in the service to which you and I are accustomed?”
“To administer; no doubt.”
“To administer; certainly—but what?”
She thought very seriously, trying to find suitable words. She was not accustomed to this sort of stand-up-and-deliver catechism; but finally she spoke:
“Some might say to administer the sacrifice; but I do not see how this can be possible. It is not a fact in nature; I cannot consider it true.”
“May I ask, why not?”
“You can never kill the truth; and Christ is not dead, but living; they are the same no matter how you think about it—Christ and the Truth.”
“But Truth was sacrificed in Him.”