“Why does she not send for her parish-priest?” he asked. This was rather suspicious, Percy thought: discreditable plots had been known before. Saintly Creatures: 14 Tales of Animals and Their Holy Companions And you will not come until twenty-two o’clock, sir?” Will twenty-two o’clock be convenient, sir?” And-and, if you please, sir, the lady is ill you must come to-day, if you please, but not until the evening. It-it may make it easier for you and for me. “Well, sir, you had better not know my name. “Well, sir,” he said hastily, “you will say nothing till you have seen her? You can promise me that.” “I must not make any promise of that kind,” said the priest gently. It must not be known, sir you will promise me that, too?” It-it would make a great stir, sir, if it was known. “Yes, sir but you do not know who she is. “Of course I will come,” said Percy, smiling. The man seemed greatly agitated his sallow face showed a little shining with sweat, and his eyes were piteous. “You will come, sir, will you not? You will promise me?” It was a message he did not very often receive in these days. Percy made a little movement with his head. She was a Catholic once she wishes to return to the Church.” “I shall not keep you long,” said the stranger eagerly. “You wished to see me,” said the priest, indicating a chair. There was nothing exceptional about him and Percy, as he came downstairs in his walking-dress and looked at him in the light from the tall parlour-window, came to no conclusion at all as to his business and person, except that he was not a Catholic. On the same afternoon Percy received a visitor. Benson chronicles the rise of the Antichrist in a dystopian future, where God has been abandoned and humanity itself has become the object of worship. Written in 1907, it delivers a stark warning of the dangers of secular humanism. The following is an excerpt from Chapter IV of Book 1: The Advent in The Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson. What promises peace and progress in reality brings only destruction and despair, and only one opponent can stand in the face of such evil: the Catholic Church.
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