Once more, the public worship and prayer attendant on the new monotheism of the new religious associations are the signs that the stage has been reached where sin will be felt and confessed. As yet, however, it cannot be said that the thought of sin is prominent. In the creeds of the [=A]rya Sam[=a]j and the Pr[=a]rthan[=a] Sam[=a]jes, the word _sin_ does not occur. What we find in the Br[=a]hma Sam[=a]j is as follows. From the creed of the Southern India Br[=a]hma Sam[=a]j, of date about 1883, we quote paragraph 7: "Should I through folly commit sin, I will endeavour to be atoned _[sic]_ unto God by earnest repentance and reformation."[126] From the "Principles of the Sadharan [Universal or Catholic] Br[=a]hma Sam[=a]j," set forth in the organ of the body, we quote a paragraph 8: "God rewards virtue and punishes sin, but that punishment is for our good and cannot last to eternity." From a publication by a third section of the Br[=a]hma Sam[=a]j, the party of Keshub Chunder Sen, we quote: "Every sinner must suffer the consequences of his own sins, sooner or later, in this world or in the next; for the moral law is unchangeable and God's justice irreversible. His mercy also must have its way. As the just king, He visits the soul with _adequate agonies_, and when the sinner after being thus chastised mournfully prays, He as the merciful Father delivers and accepts him and becomes reconciled to him. Such reconciliation is the only true atonement."[127] Even in the last quoted, the expression "adequate agonies" shows its standpoint regarding salvation from sin to be salvation by repentance, and not the standpoint of St. Paul, "I live, and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me." CHAPTER XX THE IDEA OF SALVATION "The slender sound As from a distance beyond distance grew, Coming upon me--O never harp nor horn Was like that music as it came; and then Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail." TENNYSON. [Sidenote: Hinduism superseded Buddhism because it offered salvation, not extinction.]