If
a child were disturbed by a belief in ghosts and were to cry out in terror at the delusion, the average parent, unacquainted with mental processes and ignorant of the fact that the child was suffering from a false sense of something, would be in a position to offer nothing more than mere human consolation.
Perhaps
the most difficult problem with which we have to grapple in our warfare with materiality, is in recognizing the nothingness of affection which is not based upon spirituality.
I have just read the paragraph on faith-healing in the Dispatch, and am much struck by the remarks of the clergyman, as therein quoted: "I truly believe that the time is coming when man will be able to conquer disease by the aid of God, just as, by the aid of God, he can overcome sin.
The most tragic and touching scene in the eventful career of Paul, that sturdy apostle of the Gentiles, was not any one of his harrowing experience with the elements, with wild beasts, or with wilder opponents in human guise; it was that soul-stirring episode on Mars' hill, on the occasion when he preached to the philosophers of the Grecian metropolis.
President Taft has modified the regulations as to the practice of medicine in the Canal Zone, under pressure of the Christian Scientists, who were excluded in the first narrow order.
