“No.”
“Why not?”
“I would regard his intentions.”
“Because they made the quality of the act so far as he was concerned?”
“Yes.”
“Will you make God less reasonable, considerate, and just than yourself? Does not He also regard the motives which influence his children?”
“Why—yes—I suppose He does. But—we ought to be very sure that our motives are right.”
“I grant you that, with all my heart. We must take care that we are not consenting to the death of the saints, under the mad hallucination that we are doing God’s service. But, with reason and revelation for our guide, we need not be in much fear of going wrong.”
“No; I suppose not. Still, I can’t get away from the idea suggested. I feel as if to insure my life would be trifling with a solemn matter.”
“And that life might fail you in consequence?”