Status Updates From The War of the Worlds

"Be a man!" said I. "You are scared out of your wits! What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have been done before to men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent."

I breezed through this once over a decade ago now and I feel like giving it another shot.