If you had a friend you loved dearly, the test of your love would be shown in your maintaining his integrity. You would hotly resent anything that was said against your friend because you loved him. But if your love cooled, as human love often does, you might listen to things said against your friend, and even say them yourself.
So these men and women who side with the Modernists show by their position that they have ceased to love their Lord. What would have filled them with horror and indignation when first they believed they not only tolerate now, but say the same things themselves: Oh! blessed Lord Thou are indeed wounded in the house of Thy friends.