CHAPTER V.
SCIENCE OF BEING.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life, — that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
Here I stand. I can do no otherwise; so help me God! Amen!
IN the material world thought has brought to light,
with great rapidity, many useful wonders. With
like rapidity have thought's swift pinions been rising
Materialistic challenge.
towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual
cause of those lower things which give impulse
to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from which may
be deduced all rationality, is yielding slowly to the
idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter
to Mind, as the cause of every effect. Materialistic
hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final
combat. In this revolutionary period, like the
shepherd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle
with Goliath.
Popular metaphysical systems afford, in this final struggle for supremacy, no substantial aid to true meta-
