Our Society Quotes

“The course which the rector had pursued was speedily the subject of universal conversation in Stilborough. Many were the speculations as to the cause of Mr. Gray’s extraordinary conduct. Some asserted it was because Mr. Newland believed everybody went to heaven, and that he had told the clergyman to his teeth that there was no bottomless pit burning forever with fire and brimstone. Others asserted it was because he had a different Bible. Some said it was because he didn’t believe in Jesus Christ, and others that it was because he made too much of Him and wanted to put Him in the first place in the Trinity. The wildest possible guesses were made by the simple people, and the measure in which they loved Mr. Newland determined the amount of pity which they felt for so good a man so deeply plunged into false doctrine, heresy, and schism.”
― James Spilling, Our Society: A New Church without an Old Ecclesiasticism