Marian said: “In past times some men have known it, we feel certain.”
“That is just what I meant, Marian. Such men, you mean, as Moses and Jesus?”
“Yes.”
“And we here shall get it. We shall know.
“I believe,” I said, “that when we have talked everything over we shall know the truth, and it shall be the same for each.”
“In fundamentals, perhaps,” said Ruth, “but not in all things.”
No religion could be the true religion, we said, if it fostered antagonism or bitterness toward those of another persuasion.
“One would wish to teach them,” said Marian.
“Well, then, what is the truth? We spoke of the nature of ‘God.’ What is God, the something we all know and cannot speak?”
Henry said: “I could tell better what I mean by God by saying what is not God.” We tried to make him explain.