the Scriptures" is the greatest book in the whole world. Sancta
simplicitas! Why not, indeed!

* * * * *

People turn to Mrs. Eddy's book for relief just exactly as they formerly
went to the doctor for the same reason.

In addition to bodily health, Mrs. Eddy gives joy, hope, worldly
success; and even superior minds, seeing these practical results of
Christian Science, move in the line of least resistance and are quite
willing to accept the book, not troubled at all about its medieval
reasoning. In Ungania is a very great merchant who, not content with
having the biggest store in the Kingdom, aspires to the biggest
University. The fact that the higher criticism is to him only a trivial
matter, and really unworthy of the serious attention of a busy man,
simply reveals human limitation.

The specialist is created at a terrific cost, and that a person will be
practical, shrewd, diplomatic and wise in managing the buying public and
an army of employees, and yet know and love Walt Whitman, is too much to
expect. This keen and successful merchant, an absolute tyrant in certain
ways, has his soft side and many pleasant qualities. Why any one should
ever question the literal truth of the Bible is beyond his
comprehension.

He is convinced that "Leaves of Grass" is an obscene book, never having
read it; yet he knows nothing about the third, eleventh and thirteenth
chapters of Second Samuel, having read the Book all his life. He has a
pitying, patronizing smile for any one who suggests that David was a
very faulty man, and that possibly Solomon was not the wisest person
that ever lived. "What difference does it make, anyway?" he testily
asks. If you work for him you have to agree with him, or else be very
silent as to what you actually believe. We often find an avowed and
reiterated love for Jesus, the non-resistant, going hand in hand with a
passion for war, a miser's greed, a lust for power and a thirst for
revenge.

There may be a prating about righteousness while the hand of the man is
feeling for his sword-hilt, and his eye is locating your jugular. The
Ten Commandments are all rescinded in war time. The New York "Evening
Post" noted the peculiar fact that nine out of ten of the delegates at
The Hague International Peace Conference were theological heretics. As a
rule, Orthodox Christians stand for war, and also for capital
punishment. How do we explain these inconsistencies?

We do no