the former term ‘single,’ evidently implies a double sight or perverted vision.  With this ‘evil,’ or double sight, our whole body ‘shall be full of darkness.’  Very well, my friends, if this be true,—­(and you surely must believe it true, otherwise you would not support churches for the exposition of the truth as spoken by the Founder of our Faith;—­) then we are children of the dark indeed!  I doubt if one amongst us,—­for I include myself with you,—­can be said to see clearly with a straight psychic vision.  The straight psychic vision teaches us that God is the Creator of all things,—­ God is Light and Love,—­God desires good from us, and from every particle of his creation;—­but the double or perverted line of sight offers a different view and declares, ’This life is short and offers many pleasures.  I cannot be sure of God because I have never seen Him;—­the Universe is certainly very majestic, and somewhat startling to me in its exact mathematical proportions; but I have no more to do with it than has a grain of sand;—­my lot is no more important than that of the midge in the sunbeam;—­I live,—­I breed—­ I die;—­and it matters to no one but myself how I do these three things, provided I satisfy my nature.’  This is the Philosophy of the Beast, and it is just now very fashionable.  It is ‘la haute mode’ both in France, and England, Italy, and Spain.  Only young America seem to be struggling for a Faith,—­a Christian Faith;—­it has almost, albeit faintly and with a touching indecision, asked for such a Faith from the Pope,—­who has however declared it to be impossible in these words addressed to Cardinal Gibbons, ’Discussion of the principles of the Church cannot be tolerated even in the United States.  There can only be one interpreter, the Pope.  In the matter of discipline, concessions may be allowed, but in doctrine none.’  Mark the words, ‘cannot be tolerated’!  Consider what stability a Faith can have whose principles may not be discussed!  Yet the authority of the Church is, we are told the authority of God Himself.  How is this?  We can discuss God and His principles.  He ‘tolerates’ us while we search for His laws, and stand amazed and confounded before His marvellous creation.  The more we look for Him the more He gives Himself gloriously to us; and Christ declares ’Seek and ye shall find,’—­the Church says ’Seek and ye shall not be tolerated’!  How are we to reconcile these two assertions?  We do not reconcile them; we cannot; it is a case of double sight,—­oblique and perverted psychic vision.  Christ spoke plainly;—­the Church speaks obscurely.  Christ gave straight commands,—­we fly in the face of them and openly disobey them.  Truth can always be ‘discussed,’ and Truth must be ‘tolerated’ were a thousand Holy Fathers to say it nay!  But note again the further words to America, ’There can only be one interpreter,—­the Pope.  In the matter of discipline, concessions may be allowed, but in doctrine none.’  Let us examine into