nd the tune they sang
was one which my father had taught Yram to sing; but he could not catch
the words.

As soon as the singing began, a procession, headed by the venerable Dr.
Gurgoyle, President of the Musical Banks of the province, began to issue
from the robing-room, and move towards the middle of the apse. The
President was sumptuously dressed, but he wore no mitre, nor anything to
suggest an English or European Bishop. The Vice-President, Head Manager,
Vice-Manager, and some Cashiers of the Bank, now ranged themselves on
either side of him, and formed an impressive group as they stood,
gorgeously arrayed, at the top of the steps leading from the apse to the
nave. Here they waited till the singers left off singing.

When the litany, or hymn, or whatever it should be called, was over, the
Head Manager left the President's side and came down to the lectern in
the nave, where he announced himself as about to read some passages from
the Sunchild's Sayings. Perhaps because it was the first day of the year
according to their new calendar, the reading began with the first
chapter, the whole of which was read. My father told me that he quite
well remembered having said the last verse, which he still held as true;
hardly a word of the rest was ever spoken by him, though he recognised
his own influence in almost all of it. The reader paused, with good
effect, for about five seconds between each paragraph, and read slowly
and very clearly. The chapter was as follows:-

These are the words of the Sunchild about God and man. He said--

1. God is the baseless basis of all thoughts, things, and deeds.

2. So that those who say that there is a God, lie, unless they also
mean that there is no God; and those who say that there is no God,
lie, unless they also mean that there is a God.

3. It is very true to say that man is made after the likeness of God;
and yet it is very untrue to say this.

4. God lives and moves in every atom throughout the universe.
Therefore it is wrong to think of Him as 'Him' and 'He,' save as by
the clutching of a drowning man at a straw.

5. God is God to us only so long as we cannot see Him. When we are
near to seeing Him He vanishes, and we behold Nature in His stead.

6. We approach Him most nearly when we think of Him as our expression
for Man's highest conception, of goodness, wisdom, and power. But we
cannot rise to Him above the