THE
recent action of the State of California in appropriating $250,000 to purchase a tract of redwood forest near Santa Cruz for a public reservation has aroused interest in every part of the country, perhaps nowhere more than in this city, where for years an intelligent body of treelovers have urged the necessity of some such step if any part of the redwood lands was to be preserved to future generations in its original glory.
An
illustration of the all-pervading omnipotence of Truth is to be found in the fact discerned and understood through the teaching of Christian Science that not one of our experiences is without its lesson and fruit; and so as we bring to our publications and our testimonial meetings our sheaves, the fruits of success, may not a word rightly be said regarding the fruit that is sometimes born, not through sunshine, but of adversity?