The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 11 Page 49

We call Him the Master of Life; you Christians call Him God. And does it truly avail anything with Tharon, O my brother Loskiel, if I wear the Turtle, or if my brother the Mole paints out the Beaver on his breast with a Christian cross?”

“So that your religion be good and you live up to it, sign and symbol avail nothing with God or with Tharon,” said I.

“Men wear what they love best,” said the Mole, lightly touching his cross.

“But under cross and clan ensign,” said I, “lies a man’s secret heart. Does the Master of Life judge any man by the colour of his skin or the paint he wears, or the clothing? Christ’s friends were often beggars. Did Tharon ever ask of any man what moccasins he wore?”