Keep the following in mind before you
recommend Rudyard Kipling's works to anyone.
Kipling was NO Christian, and that fact comes
through in his writing.


"Kipling’s religious views were uncertain. His father,
although a descendent of generations of Methodist Ministers,
was a non-believer. The Archbishop of Canterbury,
in a remarkable Address to the Kipling Society at Burwash Church
in 2006, said that Kipling in any orthodox sense
did not believe in Jesus.

Perhaps Kipling’s views changed over the course of his life,
but my feeling is that as a freemason he believed in a god
but not necessarily the god of the Christian church.
Masons believe in a supreme ruler of the universe but this may
be a Christian or a Jewish or a Mohammedan god or other deitiy.
My feeling is that Kipling was not a Christian and this is why
he did not use the language of Christianity in his epitaphs.
I think he was a deist believing in God,
but not an agnostic or an atheist."

(http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_kent_aidin.htm)