Note 237 — Chapter XXVII · CHRISTIAN WORK IN CEYLON

598Taking Theosophy even at its best, as now preached in Europe, an unbiassed student of its teaching writes: ‘There is no note which vibrates more constantly in the soul of every true man than the prayer, “Lord, be merciful to me a sinner!”... To that heartfelt cry I do not find any answer in Theosophy. I find, on the contrary, an almost exultant assertion that God is not a Being with a Father’s heart, that for sin there is no expiation, and for the sinner no forgiveness.’