* * * * * “_It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin._” “_All turning to self is so far turning from God; and so much as we have of self-love, so much we have of the hellish earthly weight that must be taken off.... Self is not only the seat and habitation, but the very life of sin; the works of the devil are all wrought in self, it is his peculiar workshop, and therefore Christ is not come as a Saviour from sin, as a Destroyer of the works of the devil in any of us, but as far as self is overcome and beaten down in us._”--LAW. “_God will have us surrender without terms, and until then we are fast prisoners, and not children in His universe._”--MARTINEAU. “_Christ’s love is firm, and can be severe. It never pares down His requirements to make discipleship easy; rather it attracts by heightening them, and insisting most strenuously upon the most difficult surrender._”--MCLAREN. “_For all followers of Christ, whoever and wherever they may be, the one essential and inestimable law is that of self-surrender. This was the very essence and substance of Christ’s teaching, again and again declared in language of almost awful sternness. This is Christ’s claim, just because He is our God and owns us; possible, because He is our kinsman, and understands us; blessed, because it enables Him to give us tenfold more, even now; merciful, for it is the way of our salvation._”--THOROLD. THE WAY OF EMANCIPATION. BUDDHISM I. THE WAY OF THE COMMON LIFE. II. THE WAY OF THE SAINT. “_The instant of harmony is the instant when the Buddha in us and the pure truth become one. This is enlightenment. Literally we become Buddha by the correspondence of our wisdom with the universal truth. The aim is to reach this plane._” I. THE WAY OF THE COMMON LIFE. The three sacred truths discover the situation of humanity in relation to the universe, and the ideal remedy for its misery. _End the self-life and thus end the misery._ But the full teaching of the denial of Self cannot be received by all. The Self-life and the world-life are pleasant, and many will accept the misery which may come, rather than forego present joy. For such, a simple, natural, human life, hedged and moralized by the law, is provided. ♦The ten Sins♦ The ten sins must be conquered. They are:-- THREE SINS OF THE BODY. The taking of life. Theft. Unlawful sexual intercourse. FOUR SINS OF THE TONGUE. Lying. Slander. Swearing. Vain conversation. THREE SINS OF THE MIND. Covetousness. Malice. Unbelief. ♦The Moral Law♦ For aid in the conquest of the sins, there is a short inclusive moral law:-- “Thou shalt not kill, nor cause to be killed, any living thing.” “Thou shalt abstain from anything in any place, that has not been given thee.”