er, and would not find out their
mistake until they had read half through the sermon.

George Holland had not been mistaken when he had assumed that his
appearance in the church and his sermon this day would attract a large
amount of attention. As a matter of fact the building was crowded with
notable persons: Cabinet ministers (2), judges of the superior courts
(4), company promoters (47), actors and actresses (3), music hall and
variety artists (22), Royal Academician (1). Literature was represented
by a lady who had written a high-church novel, and fashion by the
publisher who had produced it. Science appeared in the person of a
professional thought-reader (female). These were all strangers to St.
Chad's, though some of them could follow the service quite easily. The
habitues of the church included several peers, the members of a foreign
embassy, a few outside brokers, quite a number of retired officers of
both services, and some Members of Parliament and the London County
Council.

One of the chaplains of the bishop occupied a seat in the aisle;
according to the facetious newspaper he held a watching brief.

The rector was, of course, oblivious of his brilliant entourage. He
could not even tell if Phyllis or her father were present. (As a matter
of fact both were in their accustomed seats in their own pew.) He, as
usual, took but a small part in the ritual--as Lord Earlscourt once
remarked, George Holland wasn't such a fool as to keep a dog and do the
barking himself. (It has already been stated that he had a couple of
excellent curates.) But the sermon was preached by himself, as indeed it
usually was after the morning service.

It was the most brilliant of all his efforts. He took as his text the
words, "All Scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable," and he
had no difficulty in showing how vast was the profit to be derived from
a consideration of every portion of the sacred volume, it appeared to
him, than the account given of the early history of the Hebrew race.
That account appealed as an object lesson to all nations on the face of
the earth. It allowed every people to see the course which the children
of Israel had pursued at various periods of their existence and to
profit by such observation. The Hebrews were a terrible example to all
the world. If they were slaves when in the land of Egypt, that was their
own fault. Milton had magnificently expressed the origin of slavery:

"He that hath lig