awkward sentence

East of Suez, some folks say, direct control by God and Her Church ends; Man in that area being under power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, the Church of England only doing a once-in-a-while and slightly different kind of control of Englishmen

Any good, Ahmed

Con, help us

I would suggest, if you are a serious student of English, don't waste any more of your time on this "grammar exchange" if this is a typical example of its content.

The sentence is very awkwardly written or was not well translated.

The main subject verb (IMHO) are:

control / ceases

(A) Man / (was) handed over

and

Church of England Providence / exercising / supervision

" East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen."

The text quoted is the first sentence of a story called "The Mark Of The Beast" by Rudyard Kipling. It is neither "awkward" nor "translated" and is written in good, clear standard literary English. To people over a certain age, the style is instantly recognisable.

To me, the meaning of the sentence is immediately obvious.

Perhaps you can help the OP with it.

Dale, that is very good. I cannot really improve upon it, except that I will say that to Kipling and people of his era the Christian God would definitely have been male.

" East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen."

hold means "have the opinion that"
Providence is the Christian God.

East of Suez, some people say, the direct control of the white man's God ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England God only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen.

I think Kipling is being facetious, and seems, to me, to be making a comment about the behaviour and morality of Englishmen once they are well out of sight of England.

Sincerely flattered

Yea I'm secret;y amused when The True Believer objects to Her sex

"taken from a post of Azar grammar exchange"

Didn't think to google it to see if it was Kipling.

Hello,
Completely blown my mind.