The grand act of worship is, however, the _Creed_ (here again in our Flowery Land we have no term)--an Invocation and Declaration wherein all swear, under the awful penalty of eternal burnings in Hell and torments of Satan for ever, that they believe and worship all points of the _Superstition_ with thankful hearts and undoubting minds. Repeating after the Priest, all standing, facing the Idol, uncovered, with eyes downcast and deep abasement. The Incantations do not differ from the Invocations, only they are droned out in songs, more dismally, perhaps. The burden of both is to deliver the _true_ worshippers from "the wiles of the flesh and the devil"; to overthrow, if possible, this awful demon, and to save sinners, of whom the worshippers declare themselves, in a hundred different ways, to be chief, "_miserable offenders_" [ka-nt-lm-mbi]. These, and lofty exaltation of the _Christ-God_ and of the Father Jah, who, when He had given his word that nothing could save man from Hell, graciously allowed the Jews to crucify the Son, that in the Son's sufferings He, Jah, might let off some of the sufferings of mankind. Possibly some of the present worshippers might be among the lucky _saved_. For this _salvation_ endless praises are to be Sung in the Temples below; and for ever and for ever in the great Heavens, through the infinite eternal worlds without end. A Hymn of Praise in which all join ends the act of worship. The Priest _blesses_ the people and invokes the mercy of the gods; and they, making due obeisance to the idols, retire in silence or to the music of the great organs. A special act of worship, or Incantation, is always made to the _Triune-god_, that is, the _Three-in-one_, called HOLY TRINITY (_Threenity_). To omit this would, in the opinion of devotees, be so terrible a thing that no one would dare to stay a moment, fearing that, like Korah in the _Sacred Writings_, the very world would open itself and swallow them up. This _three-in-one_ seems like a _Hindoo_ god. The Bonzes attend upon the sick and the dying, moderating their fears of damnation by insisting upon the most abject devotion to the Superstition, and intimating that, if they heartily grieve over their offences, and with undoubting minds believe in all the points of the _Creed_, then they may receive the _Sacraments_--that is, _Sacred Meats_; which having received, the devil and Hell may be set at defiance. These Sacred Meats are symbols of the very _body and blood_ of Christ--a shocking _rite_, borrowed wholly from the old, savage Jews, who held that a _Sacrifice_ must be offered up to appease the wrathful Jah on almost any occasion, and who sometimes even devoted human victims.