Christ, it appeared, was risen again to
make the world safe for democracy, and to establish
self-determination for all people; and Peter and Miss Frisbie both
had on their best clothes, and watched the crowds in the "Easter
parade," and Miss Frisbie studied the costumes and make-up of the
ladies, and picked up scraps of their conversation and whispered
them to Peter, and made Peter feel that he was back on Mount Olympus
again.
They turned into one of the swell Park Avenue churches; the Church
of the Divine Compassion it was called, and it was very "high," with
candles and incense--althogh you could hardly smell the incense on
this occasion for the scent of the Easter lilies and the ladies.
Peter and his friend were escorted to one of the leather covered
pews, and they heard the Rev. de Willoughby Stotterbridge, a famous
pulpit orator, deliver one of those patriotic sermons which were
quoted in the "Times" almost every Monday morning. The Rev. de
Willoughby Stotterbridge quoted some Old Testament text about
exterminating the enemies of the Lord, and he sang the triumph of
American arms, and the overwhelming superiority of American
munitions. He denounced the Bolsheviks and all other traitors, and
called for their instant suppression; he didn't say that he had
actually been among the crowd which had horse-whipped the I.
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