and it's all reasonable and plain to me as far as I've gone and I can't help believing it, and I've proved ever so much, just as you prove examples in arithmetic. But, you see, I haven't been studying it long,—haven't had time to grow much, under its influence, and I don't make a very good sample of what it can do. There are lots of things that I haven't grown out of yet, and I wouldn't want any one to say:—'You needn't tell me that Christian Scientists are brave and kind and loving; for I know one and she's afraid to go on the water, and she has "moods," and there are some things she hasn't forgiven, and she's afraid to eat chicken—' You see, Chet, it wouldn't be fair to pick a Northern Spy in July and let it go on exhibition as a sample of what Northern Spies are. Of course, a person who knows about apples, might see that it was a perfectly good apple as far as it had gone; but a person who didn't know, might think that it was the best thing that the tree could turn out, and say that he didn't like the variety. I've got to think it over for a while and see what's the best thing to do to answer that question so that folks will know that I am a Christian Scientist at heart,
