A well-known song from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera contains this verse:
Oh, 'tis a glorious thing, I ween,
To be a regular Royal Queen!
No half-in-half affair, I mean,
But a right down regular Royal Queen.The Gondoliers:
One fresh summer morning I found myself singing this with carefree abandon on a car journey alone. As I sang, I suddenly realized how appropriate the words "no half-in-half affair" could be, taken spiritually. The Lesson-Sermon for that week, in the Christian Science Quarterly, was "Man," and the citations had made it very clear that man as God's beloved child has a royal heritage of completeness and is not a miserable, mortal sinner.
