By the way, this is excellent bacon;
quite the best I've tasted for a long time. Does Doyle supply it?"
"No; I get it down from Dublin. But about that plan of yours. It
occurs to me that Miss King is not likely to be in church."
"Of course she'll be in church. Why shouldn't she?"
"Well, if she's a disciple of that man you were speaking about last
night, she can hardly be what's generally called a Christian, can she?"
"Of course not. But she'll come to church just the same."
"But surely-- Not if she doesn't believe in Christianity?"
"My dear Major! your ideas in some respects are extraordinarily
primitive. The less anybody likes Christianity for himself, the more
sure he is that it's an excellent religion for other people. That's
the reason you find statesmen all over the world supporting whatever
Church is uppermost at the moment in the particular country they happen
to be dealing with. Look at the history of Ireland, for instance. For
a century and a half British statesmen steadily fatted up our church.
Now they are dropping any plums that they can spare--Congested
Districts Boards and such things--into the mouths of the Roman Catholic
bishops.
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