'Subservient! Yes,' said Miss Frere. 'Subservient in a way; but that does not mean that we should give up everything else for it.'
Pitt was silent.
'My dear boy,' said his mother anxiously, 'it seems to me you are straining things quite beyond what is intended. We are not all meant to be clergymen, are we?'
'That is not the point, mamma. The point is, what work is given us?'
'That work you speak of is clergymen's work.'
'Mamma, what is the command?'
'But that does not mean everybody.'
'Where is the excepting clause?'
'But, my dear, what would become of Society?'
'We may leave that. We are talking of obeying the Bible. I have given you one instance. Now I will give you another. It is written over here,' and he turned a few leaves,—'it is another word of Christ to those whom He was teaching,—"If any man serve me, let him follow me." Now here is a plain command; but what is it to follow Christ?'