Eligion would have provoked a remonstrance from even the worldliest bench of bishops. But no: apparently it seemed to the bishops as natural that the House of God should
be looted when He allowed German to be spoken in it as that a baker's shop with a German
name over the door should be pillaged. Their verdict was, in effect, "Serve God right, for creating the Germans!" The incident would have been impossible

in a country where the Church was as powerful as the Church of England, had it had at the same time a spark of catholic as distinguished from tribal
religion

in it. As it is, the thing occurred; and as far as I have observed, the only people who gasped were the Freethinkers. Thus we see that even among men who make a profession of religion the great majority are as Martian as the majority of their congregations. The average clergyman is an official who makes his living by
christening babies, marrying adults, conducting a ritual,
and making the best he can (when he