"YIELD TO REASON AND REVELATION"

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

When one bases his daily living on reason and sound thinking, he often stands out from the crowd as somebody different. He finds that worthwhile friends, even though they may disagree, respect him for his courage and his stand for what he believes right. He soon learns the fallacy of the argument that one must go along with the crowd to be popular. He sees how foolish it is to do what everybody else is doing just to be called a "good fellow."

Whoever thinks he must do what everybody else is doing may find himself in such a crowd as that which stood on the river bank and laughed at Fulton's steamboat. He is not unlike those who scoffed at Alexander Graham Bell's telephone or ignored the Wright brothers' first flight.

Speaking of the popular beliefs of these times, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 347):

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