Article December 18, 1902 Issue

Nature's Solvent

WILLIAM S. CAMPBELL with contributions from Fanny Bogardus Hunt, Frances Ridley Havergal

WILLIAM S. CAMPBELL.

IN the study of divine metaphysics we are admonished: "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve, with the universal solvent of Love, the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love; for these war against spirituality, and are the law of sin and death" (Science and Health, p. 242).

In the material world there is no universal solvent. Contrary to what might be expected, the fluid that is most nearly a universal solvent is not a strong acid that burns and destroys, but it is the most harmless, the most nearly universal in distribution, and the most absolutely free of cost—simply water. Does not this fact in the physical realm prefigure the great truth in the metaphysical realm, that the one universal solvent is gentle and unassuming in its manifestation, universal in its adaptation and bestowals, and free to all?

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