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unprejudiced mind, accurate observation, well-chosen experiment, and 

 logical reasoning upon things as we find them, not as we imagine 

 them or think they ought to be. When all approach these subjects 

 in this way, we need have no fear concerning the efPects of the prog- 

 ress. Thinkers of every type recognize that truth is a unit, of which 

 each may dig out a bit, but none can have all, and that no fact can 

 possibly be at variance with truth as a whole. Gerald Stanley Lee put 

 volumes of sound theology in six words when he said "When a fact 

 speaks, God speaks." The highest mission of science is so to amass 

 facts, and to train minds by their study, that the so-called supernat- 

 ural shall be brought within the realms of things known with the 

 same degree of certainty that the things of chemistry and physics are 

 known. Absolute knowledge beyond consciousness of our own ex- 

 istence and sensations we cannot attain. Speed the day when he who 

 gathers truth from whatever field will be welcomed with his sheaves, 

 no matter how unfamiliar the grain ! 



