It was on Saturday morning, soon after midnight, that you first awoke, and Sunday afternoon when you awoke the second time with faculties fully regained." "So you still have Sundays and sermons," I said.

"We had prophets who foretold that long before this time the world would have dispensed with both.

I am very curious to know how the ecclesiastical systems fit in with the rest of your social arrangements.

I suppose you have a sort of national church with official clergymen." Dr.Leete laughed, and Mrs.Leete and Edith seemed greatly amused.
"Why, Mr.West," Edith said, "what odd people you must think us.

You were quite done with national religious establishments in the nineteenth century, and did you fancy we had gone back to them ?" "But how can voluntary churches and an unofficial clerical profession be reconciled with national ownership of all buildings, and the industrial service required of all men ?" I answered.
"The religious practices of the people have naturally changed considerably in a century," replied Dr.Leete; "but supposing them to have remained unchanged, our social system would accommodate them perfectly.