In
his parable of the wedding, cited in the fourteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel, Christ Jesus warned against taking the highest place lest a more honorable man be bidden to the feast and the guest be subjected to the humiliation of a request to go lower.
To
the writer, who had always prided himself on his practicality and realism, it came as a definite shock to learn upon being introduced to the study of Christian Science that many of the things which he and others considered real were not actually real but were only illusions of a false material sense, the product of an unreal mortal mind.
Miss Hankey
came by her interest in religious training naturally, for her father was a banker member of the Clapham Sect, that group of evangelical philanthropists in England who wished to see the teachings of Christianity more widely practiced in public life.
