In your account of the Diocesan Conference in to-day's Cape Times it was a pleasure to read the report of Canon Herford's thoughtful paper, and the words—gentle, just, and constructive—of His Grace the Archbishop, also of the Dean of Capetown.
The article headed "About Quacks," in a recent issue of your paper, in quoting certain statements of a physician as they appeared in an issue of America, after mentioning certain questionable methods of treating desease, states that "even Christian Science and homeopathy are profound wisdom in comparison to their vagaries.
One of the most persistent characteristics of the human mind, and one that it clings to with great affection, is the tendency to dwell upon whatever it believes to be of evil portent.
In
determining the rightness of any human action this sentence is most helpful: "Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power".
Three
East Indians had fallen asleep in an empty harbor boat, and during the night hours their frail craft had broken away from its moorings and was slowly drifting out to sea.
