Nothing so convicts the world of faith without understanding, of belief without demonstration, as its haunting fear of that which the really well-ordered, faithful, and righteous know is not at all to be feared.
I am not a Christian Scientist, nor a press agent for that growing faith, but I have sometimes wondered why the newspapers are so chary about publishing the many Christian Science cures that everybody hears of except through the press.
In an article entitled "Truth and Error," which appeared in a recent issue of the Enquirer, the writer, having referred to Christian Science as a "beautiful half truth," desires to be noted "as first commending the good in it" before taking issue with what he does not understand and therefore condemns as error.
The
heading of these lines, but not the subject-matter, was suggested by a very helpful article, entitled "The Church Usher's Opportunity," which appeared in the Sentinel not long ago.
It
is recorded of the celebrated naturalist, Charles Darwin, that he raised over sixty wild plants from seed imbedded in a pellet of mud taken from the leg of a partridge.
