"That is your faith necessary to salvation ?" "I take it to be the interpretation of human history." "Perhaps it is; perhaps it is," murmured the vicar, abstractedly.

"For my own part," he added, bestirring himself to refill his pipe, "I can still see a guiding light in the older faith.

Of course the world has rejected it; I don't seek to delude myself on that point; I shrink with horror from the blasphemy which would have us pretend that our civilisation obeys the spirit of Christ.

The world has rejected it.

Now as ever, 'despised and rejected of men.' The world, very likely, will do without religion.