and Love! That dreadful night when he lay in the Garden
of Gethsemane and writhed in agony until he sweat blood
-- do you think that he saw anything worse than he might
see tonight upon the plains of Manchuria, where men
march out with a jeweled image of him before them, to do
wholesale murder for the benefit of foul monsters of sen~
suality and cruelty? Do you not know that if he were in
St. Petersburg now, he would take the whip with which
he drove out the bankers from his temple--"

Here the speaker paused an instant for breath. "No,
comrade," said the other, dryly, "for he was a practical
man. He would take pretty little imitation-lemons, such
as are now being shipped into Russia, handy for carrying
in the pockets, and strong enough to blow a whole temple
out of sight."

Lucas waited until the company had stopped laughing
over this; then he began again: "But look at it from the
point of view of practical politics, comrade. Here is an
historical figure whom all men reverence and love, whom
some regard as divine; and who was one of us -- who lived
our life, and taught our doctrine. And now shall we leave
him in the hands of his enemies -- shall we allow them to
stifle and stultify his example? We have his words, which
no one can deny; and shall we not quote them to the
people, and prove to them what he was, and what he taught,
and what he did? No, no, -- a thousand times no! -- we
shall use his authority to turn out the knaves and slug~
gards from his ministry, and we shall yet rouse the people
to action!--"

Lucas halted again; and the other stretched out his
hand to a paper on the table. "Here, comrade," he said,
with a laugh, "here is a place for you to begin. A bishop
whose wife has just been robbed of fifty thousand dollars'
worth of diamonds! And a most unctuous and oily of
bishops! An eminent and scholarly bishop! A philan~
thropist and friend of labor bishop -- a Civic Federation
decoy-duck for the chloroforming of the wage-working-
man!"

To this little passage of arms the rest of the company sat

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