Article December 13, 1900 Issue

Three Lessons

BY EDWARD EVERETT NORWOOD.

While riding on an electric car recently, I had three illustrations presented to me, which, rightly understood and applied, were useful lessons in Scientific demonstration. I noticed every time we crossed another street car line, the motorman, after going a few yards, shut off the power. In reply to my inquiring why this was done, he answered, "When we cross another line our car takes on a certain amount of that line's current, and we must cut ourselves off from it, else it interferes with our progress and deranges the machinery." So, in journeying along, when adverse circumstances—errors—seem to cross us, we must cut ourselves off from them, so the wrong atmosphere cannot touch us, and thus hinder our progress by deranging our mental mechanism and harmony of thought.

A few squares further on a hot box was discovered under the car, and the conductor telephoned ahead to the barn for a man to be ready with the lubricants to oil it when we passed. Thought I, "So it is in our Scientific life. When the cares and worries of the day seem to cause friction, a halt is necessary, and the lubricant of divine Love is applied, which instantly overcomes the difficulty."

Just before getting down town, the car came to a blockade in the street. It was where one street intersected another and ended. A half dozen street cars, trucks, cottonwagons, and vehicles of all kinds, were seemingly hopelessly entangled. Men were shouting orders in various degrees of irritation and the answers were not a whit more loving. In a few moments the cause was discovered. A very small Texas pony, hitched to a dog-cart, had become entangled between two wagons, and nothing could go forward until it was extricated. So by dint of much care, pushing forward a few feet, then a wagon a few feet, then a street car a yard, it was finally untangled, and the blockade broken.

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