26 TOHU-VA-VOHU God—as for our raison d’étre, it begins after that. It is given us of God, in order to work out the true étre. We live in order to live. But how few know what étre means! The humblest life and work may be étre, if it is really spiritual and spiritually real. That which has no object in being has also no longer any reason for being. Remember this in your life and religion. Repent quickly, or else I will remove thy candle- stick, saith Christ. The commonest and yet most dreadful of sins is untruthfulness. It comprises a breach of all the Ten Commandments; it makes a man a villain, a coward, and a sneak all together ; it lowers one’s estimate of oneself, and it cuts off every bud of possible growth or development. Yet how many of us have been untruthful from hunger pangs? I feel and can have hope for such; not so for other forms of it. Who am I that condemn another? The Master bears with him! It is the old story of the much forgiven, and his harshness towards him who owes the few pence.