"Perhaps not. I always said the world was up side down. But what does that prove? I don't know what you are driving at."
"Then the claim of Jesus Christ himself, that He was the Son of God, in a peculiar sense,—that no man can come to the Father except through Him,—is a claim we must acknowledge."
"I don't know anything about that. You are taking too much for granted."
"Why, if any other man should claim to be divine, saying, in plain terms, 'I and my Father are one,' he would be seized and punished for blasphemy. It would be monstrous, presumptuous in the last degree. The fact that Jesus Christ claimed that he was one with the Father, the fact that he was a sinless being, and could not therefore be such a wicked impostor, that he proved his assertion by his life, his teachings, and his power to work miracles, is the great central truth on which Christianity is based. If you read your Bible prayerfully, as I earnestly hope you do, you must concede so much."
Mr. Lambert twirled his glove, looked grave, and then said, "Well, what of that?"
"How do you suppose the world came to be upside down, Mr. Lambert?"
"Can't say. Can vouch for the fact, though. Everything and everybody is helter-skelter."
"Including Mr. Regy, I suppose."
"Yes; he is as bad as any of them."
"And needs a power out of himself to put him right."