upon the speaker.

"Your churches are losing their hold upon men because your religion is
one of separation, here and hereafter--while the one great tendency of
the age is toward brotherhood--oneness. Primitive man had individual
pride--family pride, city pride, state pride, national pride
followed--but we are coming now to the only permissible pride, a world
pride--in which the race feels its oneness. We are nearly there; even
now the spirit that denies this actual brotherhood is confined to the
churches. The people outside more generally than you dream know that God
does not discriminate among religions--that he has a scheme of a dignity
so true that it can no more permit the loss of one black
devil-worshipper than that of the most magnificent of archbishops."

He stopped, looking inquiringly--almost wistfully, at them.

Various polite exclamations assured him of their interest.

"Continue, by all means," urged Whittaker. "I feel that you will have
even Father Riley edified in a moment."

"The most cynical chap--even for a Unitarian," purled that good man.

Bernal resumed.

"Your God is a tribal God who performed his wonders to show that he had
set a difference between Israel and Egypt. Your Saviour continues to set
the same difference: Israel being those who believed his claim to
Godship; Egypt those who find his evidence insufficient. But we humans
daily practise better than this preaching of retaliation. The Church is