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He finished the worship service as if there had been no brazen attempt to dishonor God and man. The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected. "I have told you before, and I tell you again", Monsieur Favre said rudely. "Stick to the preaching of the Gospel"! John stiffened in anger.   "That is the answer the ungodly will ALWAYS make when the Church points its fingers at their sins.   I say to you that the Church will ever decry evil"! John's reply was like a declaration of war. Monsieur Favre sat down in his high-backed stall, lips compressed, eyes glinting. Ablard Corne, a short man with a rotunda of stomach, rose. Every eye was on him as he began to speak. "What Master Calvin says is true. How can we have a good city unless we respect morality"?