The Inside of the Cup — Volume 03

Project Gutenberg's The Inside of the Cup, Volume 3, by Winston ChurchillThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Inside of the Cup, Volume 3Author: Winston ChurchillRelease Date: October 17, 2004 [EBook #5358]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INSIDE OF THE CUP, VOLUME 3 ***Produced by David WidgerTHE INSIDE OF THE CUPBy Winston ChurchillVolume 3.IX. THE DIVINE DISCONTENT X. THE MESSENGER IN THE CHURCH XI. THE LOST PARISHIONER XII. THE WOMAN OF THE SONGCHAPTER IXTHE DIVINE DISCONTENTIIt was the last Sunday in May, and in another week the annual flight to the seashore and the mountains would have begunagain. The breezes stealing into the church through the open casements wafted hither and thither the odours of thechancel flowers, and mingled with those fainter and subtler perfumes set free by the rustling of summer gowns.As on this day he surveyed his decorous and fashionable congregation, Hodder had something of that sense of extremitywhich the great apostle to the Gentiles himself must have felt when he stood in the midst of the Areopagus and made hisvain yet sublime appeal to Athenian indifference and luxury. "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but nowcommandeth all men everywhere to repent." ...