TOHU-VA-VOHU 23 warrantable if they were omniscient or omnipresent ; while their spontaneous intercession is due to their continuous interest and affection towards what had engaged them on earth. Remember in religion and in life: For fungus- growths it needs no more than a dark, damp place! It 1s necessary not only to be entirely truthful, but to speak out the truth, so far as we are capable of perceiving it. To speak it in love is a Christian grace. Only remember: the truth—not my truth nor thine, but the truth catholic, that 1s, semper, ubique, ab omnibus avowed as the truth. When after a weary day and a long evening of mutual humbugging, people take off their false ringlets and take out their false teeth, smooth themselves and undo their ruffles, and stand out in their native limp- ness just before going to bed—physically, mentally, and morally, how mean and jaded they must look in the glass, and how miserable they must feel ! There are few things I dread more in religion than arguments in its favour. They are mostly wretched