Why, they say in effect, should you listen to the agitator in the street, when we can give you something just as good from the pulpit?
What the message really means which they thus undertake to deliver, they make no effort to understand.

It will attract, or at least they think so; and for the moment this is enough for them.

Having probably emptied their churches by talking traditional nonsense, they are willing to fill them by talking nonsense that has not even the merit of being traditional.

We will not linger, however, over the case of men like these.

We will turn to that of others who are morally very much more respectable, and whose condition of mind, moreover, is very much more instructive.