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There is but one quality necessary for the perfect understanding of character, one quality that, if man have it, he may dare to judge —that is, omniscience. Most people study character as a proofreader pores over a great poem; his ears are dulled to the majesty and music of the lines, his eyes are darkened to the magic imagination of the genius of the author; that proofreader is busy watching for an inverted comma, a misspacing, or a wrong-font letter.

Divine Love led me to investigate Christian Science three years ago, through the healing of my wife of several so-called incurable diseases. After one trip of several months made with her to distant cities to see specialists and be treated by them, with sanitarium, trained nurses, and doctors' bills amounting to twenty-seven dollars per day for the trip, I returned home with her still diseased in mind and body.

One of the early unfoldings that came to me in Christian Science was that the law of compensation,—equivalent for equivalent, absolutely just measurement, absolutely fair return,—was indeed that which should be found "changing chaos into order" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 151), and establishing in us a true sense of proportion; that it should lead us from the lower to the higher, the smaller to the greater, till we found the sum of all material equations.

Toledo, Ohio, April 6, 1900. My Dear Father: —It was with feelings much mingled that I read your letter of March 30, from Riverside, a brief acknowledgment of which I have already given you.

At one time I was in a part of the country where the land was fertile, but, owing to fires and drouth, there were no trees. My mother, being very much interested in the country, felt it to be her duty to prove that trees could be grown successfully there.

But I say unto you which hear. Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

" Thought expands into expression, as mortals shake off their swaddling clothes. 'Let there be light,' is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order, and discord into the music of the spheres" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker G.

To Christian Scientists, the present epoch is pre-eminently one of hope and anticipation. Never was the outlook more full of promise and good cheer than now.

A year ago last November, I had occasion to visit Jackson's Lake, Northern Wyoming, a basin formed by the Teton range of the Rocky Mountains. It being a distance of one hundred and fifty miles from the railroad station, it was necessary to make the trip by private conveyance.

All states are full of noise and confusion; only the valley of Humiliation is that empty and solitary place. Here a man shall not be so let and hindered in his contemplation as in other places he is apt to be.