The Inside of the Cup Author:Winston Churchill General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / American / General Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER in THE PRIMROSE PATH Nelson Langmaid's extraordinary judgment appeared once more to be vindicated. There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews. None got so far as to define to themselves why there should be an apparent incompatibility between ruggedness and orthodoxy -- but there were some who hoped and more who feared. Luther had been orthodox once, Savonarola also: in appearance neither was more canonical than the new rector. His congregation, for the most part, were not analytical. But they felt a certain anomaly in virility proclaiming tradition. It took them several Sundays to get accustomed to it. To those who had been used for more than a quarter of a century to seeing old Dr. Gilman's gentle face under the familiar and faded dove of the sounding-board, to the deliberation of his walk, and the hesitation of his manner, the first impression of the Reverend John Hodder was somewhat startling. They felt that there should be a leisurely element in religion. He moved across the chancel with incredible swiftness, his white surplice flowing like the draperies of a moving Victory, wasted no time with the pulpit lights, announced his texthin a strong and penetrating, but by no means unpleasing voice, and began to speak with the certainty of authority. Here, in an age when a new ...« less