"Very well, Walter, you will find it on the library table." Walter walked into the library, secured the book, then went up to his room, took out "Science and Health" and was soon absorbed in its contents. The afternoon was a repetition of the morning. At the supper table the Rev. Williams said, "I am sorry we cannot start our Bible lessons for a few evenings, as I have received a notification to be present at some meetings to be held by the local clergy." "Any matter of importance, James?" asked his wife. "Not particularly so. The Rev. Mr. Johnson said that they wished to find a way to successfully combat this new heretical idea called Christian Science, and they want to arrange so that each clergyman will give a sermon denouncing it, each on a different Sunday, and Rev. Johnson asked me if I was willing to deliver a sermon on it, and I told him yes." "Why father," said Walter, "I did not know that you had ever read or looked into Christian Science." "No son, I never did look it up or study it, and what is more I never intend to. The Bible is good enough for me." "But, father, how can you preach a sermon on it if you do not know what it is?" "I did not say that I did not know what it is. I have heard enough to know that it _is not_ Christian and that they claim to heal in the same way that Jesus Christ did. This claim alone proves that it is false, for Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and that is why He could heal the sick, and for any man to consider himself equal to Jesus Christ is blasphemous." "Father did not Jesus bid His disciples heal the sick?" "Yes, certainly, He gave His disciples the power to heal the sick, but His disciples have been dead for a long time, and nobody else was given the power to heal as Christ did," said the pastor. "Was St. Paul one of Christ's disciples?" "No Walter, he was not in reality one of Christ's disciples, but he was a very good and holy man." "Did not St. Paul heal the sick?" "Yes, there are several accounts in the Bible of St. Paul's healing power." "Well father, where did St. Paul get his power to heal the sick if he was not one of the disciples that Jesus gave the power of healing to?" "Why you see it was like this--that is--I mean to say--" the pastor stopped rather confused, then finished with, "It is too long a story to tell to-night, as I must be getting ready for that meeting. I will explain this all when we start our lessons." The pastor left the room and entered the library, thinking deeply. "I wonder where that boy gets those queer ideas from. I am very much pleased that I suggested those Bible lessons, for if he was not enlightened, he would surely go astray."