[Izzy Dunne]

CORRECTION: it IS the townsfolk doing at least SOME of the complaining.
But the fear of the new world order is there, as well.

[marktwain]

It sounds as though the Vicar is trying to push the New World Order, rather than reacting in fear of it.

[Romulus]

The bells at St Mary's Church in Totnes, Devon - England's second oldest borough - have sounded every quarter of an hour since a civic subscription scheme paid for the clock to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.

The bells of Christian churches once served to mark the canonical hours, not as civic conveniences for the honor of human sovereigns. But that was in another Church, and another age. The bells of St. Mary's have been abused for the sake of political correctness since at least 1887.