CHAPTER VIII.
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL NOT EVENTUALLY MARRY AN INFIDEL.
Some of the congregation were greatly disappointed.

They had expected a brilliant and startling attack upon some other Bible personages who had hitherto been looked on with respect and admiration.

But the sermon had only attacked the Jewish system as a whole, and everyone knows that there is nothing piquant in an attack, however eloquent it may be, upon a religious system in the abstract.

One might as well find entertainment in an attack upon the Magnetic Pole or a denunciation of the Precession of the Equinoxes.

No one cared, they said, anything more about the failure of the laws of Moses than one did about such abstractions as the Earth's Axis, or the Great Glacial Epoch.