CHAPTER XIV.
FORMS OF WORSHIP.

Byron’s lines—Carnegie’s description—Parsee nature-worship—English Sunday—The sermon—Appeals to reason misplaced—Music better than words—The Mass—Zoroastrianism brings religion into daily life—Sanitation—Zoroastrian prayer—Religion of the future—Sermons in stones and good in everything.

Not vainly did the early Persian make

His altar the high places and the peak

Of earth-o’ergazing mountains, and thus take

A fit and unwall’d temple, where to seek

The spirit, in whose honour shrines are weak,

Uprear’d of human hands. Come, and compare