To him the only effective prayers were "evangelical" prayers--whatever that may mean--and he was deeply distressed and fearfully worried because I could not see eye to eye with him in this matter.

And a dear, good woman, who heard a subsequent discussion of the subject, was so worried over my attitude that she felt impelled to assure me when I left that "she would pray for me." I have friends who are zealous Roman Catholics, and a number of them are praying that I may soon enter the folds of "Mother Church," and yet my Unitarian and Universalist friends wonder why I retain my membership in any "orthodox" church.

On the other hand, my New Thought friends declare that I belong to them by the spirit of the messages I have given to the world.

Then, too, my Theosophist friends--and I have many--present to me, with a force I do not attempt to controvert, the doctrine of the Universal Brotherhood of Mankind, and urge upon me acceptance of the comforting and helpful doctrine, to them, of Reincarnation.
Not long prior to this writing a good earnest man buttonholed me and held me tight for over an hour, while he outlined his own slight divergencies from the teachings of the Methodist Church, to which he belongs, and his interpretation of the symbolism of Scripture, none of which had the slightest interest to me.

In our conversation, he expressed himself as quite willing--please note the condescension--to allow me the privilege of supposing the Catholic was honest and sincere in his faith and belief, _but he really could not for one moment_ allow the same to the Christian Scientist, who, from his standpoint, denied the atonement and the Divinity of Christ.