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Where There Is Nothing 255
Mr. Dowler. Everyone knows there is no more valua
ble blessing than work.
Paid Ruttledge decides to put his visitors
"
on
trial," to let them see themselves as they are in all
their hypocrisy, all their corruption.
He charges the military man, Colonel Lazvley,
with calling himself a Christian, yet following the
business of man-killing. The Colonel is forced to
admit that he had ordered his men to fight in a
war, of the justice of which they knew nothing, or
did not believe in, and yet it is
"
the doctrine of
your Christian church, of your Catholic church,
that he who fights in an unjust war, knowing it to
be unjust, loses his own soul." Of the rich man
Dowler, Paul Ruttledge demands whether he could
pass through the inside of a finger ring, and on
Paul s attention being called by one of the tinkers
to the fine coat of Mr. Dowler, he tells him to help
himself to it. Threatened by Mr. Green, the
spokesman of the law, with encouraging robbery,
Ruttledge admonishes him.
Ruttledge. Remember the commandment,
"
Give to
him that asketh thee
"
;
and the hard commandment goes
even farther, "Him that taketh thy cloak forbid not to
take thy coat also."
But the worst indictment Ruttledge hurls against
Mr. Green. The other professed Christians kill,
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