This is the title of a new book by Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Ph.D., published by Little, Brown & Co. A small book it is, of only 219 pages, but those pages are packed with thought,— not the last that will come from a scholar who, at fifty, gives to the world of print the fruit which has been half his lifetime ripening on the bough of a mind fed by the sap of spiritual Life. The book is full of the frank spirit which fully justifies his first name, by which his friends familiarly call him. Those who have been at the fireside of his home and thought, and experienced his genial hospitality and courtesy, best appreciate the man, and are most glad to welcome his book.
His purpose is to show that one can be a Scientist (using the word, of course, in its common signification, of a student of natural, or material science) and yet a devout Theist, or believer in God. Such a believer is Dr. Abbot, to whose spirit his sons bear beautiful testimony; and this is shown also by his poem, which is so accordant with the teachings of Christian Science, that it is appended to this article.
More than this Dr. Abbot attempts to do—to show that we can logically arrive, and by methods strictly scientific, at faith in the Infinite Father.
