If you will write to me a few lines I shall be still more grateful, for I feel you can help me.

I seem to have read Christ's mission wrong--but with patience and prayer it is possible to redeem my error.

Once more thanking you, I am, "Yours with more thankfulness than I can write, "L.

E.F." [I lost no time in replying to this letter, and since then have frequently corresponded with the writer, from whose troubled mind the dark cloud has now entirely departed.

And I may here venture to remark that the evils of "modern scientific atheism" are far more widely spread and deeply rooted than the majority of persons are aware of, and that many of the apparently inexplicable cases of self-slaughter on which the formal verdict, "Suicide during a state of temporary insanity," is passed, have been caused by long and hopeless brooding on the "nothingness of the Universe"-- which, if it were a true theory, would indeed make of Creation a bitter, nay, even a senseless jest.