Do you suppose they care a pin for either? Not they. All
they want is to strengthen up some form of religion which will keep the
people quiet. They think that Christianity is an excellent thing for
everybody they have to govern, though they take jolly good care not to
act on it themselves. In just the same way you'll see that Miss King
will be in church to-day. As a follower of Nietzsche she doesn't
herself accept the ethics of Christianity, but she'll consider it her
duty to encourage everybody else to accept them, and the only practical
way she has of doing that is to attend church regularly."
"You're preaching to-day, aren't you, J. J.?"
"Yes, I am. I promised the poor old rector that I would do all I could
to help him while I'm here. Why do you ask?"
"I was wondering," said the Major, "if you were going to give us that
doctrine out of the pulpit."
"Well, I'm not. You ought to know, Major, that my sermons are always
strictly practical, and deal entirely with matters of pressing local
importance: the ordinary difficulties and dangers of the people I'm
preaching to. There won't be any statesmen in church to-day, so
there'd be no point in my explaining that theory.
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