Thus, seeking to be kind and fraternal, but at the same time perfectly honest, if we make mistakes, we may still comfort ourselves with the assurance which his Irish Catholic servant once expressed to the devout and learned Bishop Whately.
Do you really believe, he asked her, "that there is no salvation outside of the Roman Catholic Church?"
Shure, an' I do, she replied, "for that's what the praist ses."
Well, then, what is going to become of me?
Oh, that's all right, she answered, with an Irish twinkle in her eyes.
"Yer riverence will be saved by yer ignorince."