ing brief in regard
in regard to those sermons. He did not think it worth while to do so
much, George Holland's friends said, shaking their heads and pursing out
their lips. Oh, yes! there could be no doubt that the bishop was a very
weak sort of man.

But then suddenly there appeared in the new number of the _Zeit Geist
Review_ an article above the signature of George Holland, entitled "The
Enemy to Christianity," and in a moment it became pretty plain that
George Holland had not in his "Revised Versions," said the last word
that he had to say regarding the attitude of the Church of England in
respect of the non-church-goers of the day. When people read the article
they asked "Who is the Enemy to Christianity referred to by the writer?"
and they were forced to conclude that the answer which was made to such
an inquiry by the article itself was, "The Church."

He pointed out the infatuation which possessed the heads of the Church
of England in expecting to appeal with success to the educated people
of the present day, while still declining to move with the course of
thought of the people. Already the braying of a trombone out of tune,
and the barbarous jingle of a tambourine, had absorbed some hundred
thousand of possible church-goers; and though, of course, it was
impossible for sensible men and women--the people whom the Church should
endeavor to grapple to its soul with hooks of steel--to look, except
with amused sadness, at the ludicrous methods and vulgar ineptitude of
the Salvation Army, still the Church was making no effort to provide
the sensible, thinking, educated people of England with an equivalent
as suitable to their requirements as the Salvation Army was to the
requirements of the foolish, the hysterical, the unthinking people who
played the tambourines and brayed on the tuneless trombones. Thus it is
that one man says to another nowadays, when he has got nothing better to
talk about, "Are you a man of intelligence, or do you go to church?"

Men of intelligence do not go to church nowadays, Mr. Holland announced
in that article of his in the _Zeit Geist_; many women of intelligence
refrain from going, he added, though many beautifully dressed women were
still frequent attenders. There was no blinking the fact that the
crass stupidity of the Church had made church-going unpopular--almost
impossible--with intelligent men and women. The Church insulted the
intelligence by trying to reconcile the teachings