him as a critic who knows whereof he speaks. His allu-

sion to Christian Science in the following paragraph, [15]

glows in the shadow of darkling criticism like a mid-

night sun. Its manly honesty follows like a benediction

after prayer, and closes the task of talking to deaf ears

and dull debaters.

“We have always insisted that this Science is natural, [20]

spiritually natural; that Jesus was the highest type of

real nature; that Christian healing is supernatural, or

extra-natural, only to those who do not enter into its