_Cleanse and purify thy heart, for it is the seat of all sin, not by worthless ceremonies, prayers and moanings, but by the stern resolve to sin no more--to uphold right and do right. Sacrifice thyself at the shrine of duty, forgiving injuries, and acting only toward others as you would have them behave towards thy self._ *** Where, again, in Jewish or Christian psalm, or hymnology, is there a finer ideal than this, from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, rendered in verse by the author of Paganism and Christianity:= ```_That pleases me which pleases thee, ```Great Universe: I murmur not, ```If but the evils of my lot ```May serve thy wider harmony._****= Or this from Seneca: ```_Man's mind, not birth, determines his degree; ```No slave so mean but virtue sets him free. ```What if his body's bound! His soul can rise ```On wings of thought unfettered to the skies. ```What if his body's bought! His soul is free; ````No servitude can mar its liberty._ (v)= ** Vol. I, page 54. *** Short Texts on Faith and Philosophies, Forlong. **** Paganism and Christianity, Farrer, page 94. v. Ibid, 96. And how much purer the motives recommended in the following, compared with the fear of hell and the hope of heaven, so conspicuous in Christian hymns:= ``_Nature made Virtue man's chief aim and goal ``When she made Conscience mistress of his soul, ``His noblest actions taste no sweeter praise ``Than that which conscience to itself conveys; ``Nor on his crimes can punishment be laid ``Worse than inflicts a conscience disobeyed. ``Virtue calls, and, easy of access, ``Spreads smooth the road that leads to happiness; ``Mountains may crumble, Etna fall away, ``True virtue only suffers no decay. *_= To find out how radically anti-biblical, or how essentially Pagan are our civil and political institutions, compare the following from the American Constitution with the Asiatic teaching of the Apostle Paul: _The Constitution teaches: St. Paul teaches: That all political power is Let every soul be subject inherent in the people, and unto the higher powers. For all free governments are there is no power but of God : founded on their authority, the powers that be are or- and instituted for their ben- dained of God. Whosoever efit; and that they have at therefore resisteth the power, all times an undeniable and resisteth the ordinance of indefeasible right to alter God : and they that resist their form of government in shall receive to themselves such manner as they may damnation.! think expedient._