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Whereas the real test of any religion is--as I saw it excellently well put the other day--'not what form it takes in a virtuous mind, but what effects it produces on those of another sort.' Well, I have been studying those effects pretty well all my life, and they may be summed up, roughly but with fair accuracy, as Bad Temper." "Good men or bad," persisted Mr.Simeon, "what _can_ the Christian religion do but make them both better ?" "_Which_ Christian religion?
Catholic or Protestant?
Anglican or Nonconformist?
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I won't ask you to give away your own side.
So we'll take the Protestant Nonconformists.

There are a good many down at the Club: you heard some of the things they said and printed during the Election; and while your charity won't deny that they are religious--some of 'em passionately religious--you will make haste to concede that their religion and their bad temper were pretty well inseparable.