Editorial July 10, 1902 Issue

The Uncovering of Error

Editor

Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie has been writing entertainingly of late—and he never writes otherwise—respecting some of the antiquities of "London Village," and his description of the old-fashioned stage-coaches which still obtain, he gives a picture which is pertinently suggestive to every struggling student of Christian Science. He says, "No such feature of the place so carries the flavor of olden customs as the stage-coaches or 'buses. ... Jolting along, full of people on top, these 'buses, when viewed from the sidewalk, have the air of old woodcuts, which not even their enormous advertisements of the best jam or the latest play can render modern-looking. Inside of them the windows will not open, twelve people render them 'full up,' and until the last week or two their darkness at night was made visible by one tiny oil lamp."

How often has it seemed to us all, that the glimmering consciousness of good in us and in the world but served to bring into stronger relief the murky darkness of the all-encompassing error; and yet, the little light has shone on cheerfully, betimes, as though the darkness impeded not a whit its daring little ventures, and so it has reminded us that it is not afraid and that with nourishment and growth it will brave and banish the darkness of the world. Then we have grown more patient and set ourselves to the getting of more oil for our lamps.

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