Mauritius

I was wrong, the beginning and the end are not consistent.However, just because I don't believe in the doctrine of the Trinity doesn't mean I'm not a Christian. "

"What do you believe?" Durham demanded.

"Basic—the essence of Christianity."

"Such as..."

Maurice whispered, "Jesus atones." He had never said that outside of church, and his blood boiled with emotion.But just as he did not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, he did not believe in the atonement of Jesus.He knew Durham would see through that.Jesus' redemption is a trump card, but this game is a no trump card, and his friend can eat it with a no trump card.

At that time Durham only said: "Dante "Hell", "Purgatory" and "Kingdom of Heaven". The number "three", as a symbol of "Trinity", often appears throughout the book.) I once believed in the doctrine of the Trinity." He found the last part of "Kingdom of Heaven" from the bookshelf .He read to Maurice the lines about a human face emerging from the intersection of three rainbows.The poem bored Maurice, but at the end of the reading he asked aloud, "Whose face is it?"

"God, isn't that obvious?"

"But isn't that poem written in the guise of a dream?"

Hall was confused, and Durham didn't want to understand what he meant.He also had no way of knowing that Maurice was thinking about the dream he had in public school, and the voice telling him "this is your friend".

"Dante didn't say it was a dream, he preferred to say it was awakening."

"Then you take it for granted that the imagination is a thing of the past?"

"Faith is always right," Durham answered, putting the book back. "It's just and infallible. Every man has some kind of belief somewhere in his heart, and he can do it for but is that what your parents and guardians taught you? If you have faith, should it be a part of your own body and soul? You have to prove to me that you have faith No more flash sales. 'Atonement' or 'Trinity'."

"I've given up on the Holy Trinity."

"And Jesus' Atonement."

"You're too harsh," said Maurice. "I've always known I was retarded, and always have been. Risley's people are more suitable for you, and you'd better talk to them."

Durham looked embarrassed.Embarrassed at last, speechless, he allowed Maurice to saunter away.The next day they met as usual.The two of them didn't quarrel yesterday, but a steep slope suddenly appeared in front of them.After climbing to the top of the slope, they walked faster.They discussed theology again, and Maurice defended Jesus' atonement.He was defeated by Durham.He realizes that he has no real feeling for the presence of Christ and the goodness of Christ.He was really sorry if there was such a person as Christ.His distaste for Christianity grew and deepened.Within ten days he decided not to take communion.For three weeks he abstained from all the services which he dared to slip away from.The rapidity with which he changed confused Durham.Both of them felt confused.Maurice, despite his defeat and abandonment of all his insights, tasted a strange intoxication.He thinks he's actually won and is continuing the battle that started last term.

Durham was no longer bored with him now.Durham couldn't do without him, and at any moment Durham could be found curled up in Morris' room, trying to argue with him.It was so uncharacteristic of Durham.Durham had always been reserved, not a polemicist.His excuse against Maurice's insight is: "That's nonsense, Hall. Anyone else here has faith in being a gentleman." Is this entirely true?Was there nothing else behind his new posture and his assault on traditional beliefs?Maurice thought there was something in it.On the surface, he retreated, but he thought it was a good deal for him to lose the pawn of faith, because in order to get it, Durham revealed his heart.

Towards the end of the semester, they approached a more sensitive issue.The two of them were in the superintendent's translation class, and a student was quietly interpreting Greek into English.But Mr. Cornwallis said in a low and steady voice: "Omit. This paragraph involves the unspeakable sin of the Greeks." (Annotation: refers to homosexuality.) job.

Maurice smiled.

"I think this is the core issue of purely academic research. The Greeks, that is to say, the vast majority of Greeks have that tendency. Omitting it is tantamount to omitting the mainstream of Athenian society."

"Is that so?"

"Have you ever read "Symposium" ?”

Morris hadn't read it.He did not add that he had explored Martial himself.

"It's all in the book-of course it's not suitable for children to read, but you should read it. Read it during this holiday."

There was no further talk at the time, but he was now entitled to another subject, one that he had never discussed with anyone else.It never occurred to him that he could talk about such a thing.As Durham talked about it in the sunlit courtyard, he touched a breath of freedom.

When Maurice came home, he kept talking about Durham until the whole family remembered that he had a friend.Ada imagined that he might be the brother of a Miss Durham, but she remembered that the lady was an only child.Mrs. Hall confused Durham with a college teacher named Cumberland.Maurice was deeply hurt.Hurt strong feelings stir up another feeling.Deep down in his heart, he was unhappy with the women in his family.So far his relationship with them has been unremarkable but stable.But it seemed to him simply unforgivable that anyone should mistake the name of a friend who meant more to him than the whole world.The main content of everything is taken away by domestic life.

His atheism met the same fate.No one took his words seriously as he expected.With the waywardness of youth, he took his mother aside and said that he would respect the religious prejudices of her and his sisters from now on, but his own conscience would never allow him to go to church.It was a great misfortune, she said.

"Dearest Mother, I know this will upset you. I am so born, and you cannot persuade me."

"Your poor papa always went to church."

"I'm not my dad."

"Morry, Maury, how can you talk like that."

"Well, my brother is really not my father," said Kitty, as usual, "that's true. Mother, come here."

"Kitty, dear, you," cried Mrs Hall.She felt that she should disapprove of her son's remarks, but she didn't want to have a showdown with him. "We're talking about a deep subject. And you're totally wrong, because Maurice is almost like his father, Dr. Barry said."

"Well, Dr. Barry doesn't go to church himself," said Maurice.This family has always talked nonsense, and he was also affected.

"He's a very clever gentleman," said Mrs. Hall firmly. "And so is Mrs. Barry."

Mother's slip of the tongue made Ada and Kitty laugh.They laughed at the thought that Mrs. Barry should be a gentleman, and Maurice's atheism was forgotten.On Sunday, Easter, he did not take Communion.He had expected a quarrel like Durham's, but no one paid any heed to it, because Christianity was no longer taken seriously in the suburbs.It disgusted him thoroughly, and he saw society with new eyes.People in the world have a dignified appearance and seem to be considerate of other people's feelings. Could it be that they are indifferent to everything in their bones?

He wrote often to Durham—long letters, trying to express the shades of emotion delicately.Durham took it lightly and confessed it frankly.Durham's reply was equally lengthy.Maurice always carried them with him, moving them into the pocket of another garment each time he changed clothes.Even pin them to your pajamas while you sleep.Waking up in the middle of the night, he stroked them, watched the projections on the ceiling illuminated by street lamps, and remembered how frightened he had been as a boy.

Another thing happened about Miss Gladys Alcott.

Miss Alcott was one of their infrequent guests.She had been invited to a spa hotel where she had looked after Mrs. Hall and Ida so well.She was a charming girl, or so the women said.The male guests said to the son of the family that he was a lucky man.He laughed and they laughed.At first Maurice ignored her, and from then on paid her attention.

Maurice himself did not realize that he had become a handsome young man.A lot of physical exercise has made him less clumsy.The body is heavy, but the movements are quick and the face is good