lowing so steadily through them.
That stimulus was Carmen.

To meet with a child of tender years who knows no evil is, after all,
a not uncommon thing. For, did we but realize it, the world abounds in
them. They are its glory, its radiance--until they are taught to heed
the hiss of the serpent. Their pure knowledge of immanent good would
endure--ah, who may say how long?--did not we who measure our wisdom
by years forbid them with the fear-born mandate: "Thus far!" What
manner of being was he who said, "Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not?" Oh, ye parents, who forbid your little ones
to come to the Christ by hourly heaping up before them the limitations
of fear and doubt, of faith in the power and reality of sin and evil,
of false instruction, and withering material beliefs! Would not the
Christ pray for you to-day, "Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do"?

When Jose met Carmen she was holding steadfastly to her vision--the
immanence and allness of God. Each day she created the morrow; and she
knew to a certainty that it would be happy. Would he, clanking his
fetters of worldly beliefs, be the one to shatter her illusion, if
illusion it be? Nay, rather should he seek to learn of her, if; haply
she be in possession of that jewel for which he had searched a vain
lifetime. Already from the stimulus which his intercourse with the
child had given his mental processes there had come a sudden
liberation of thought. Into his freer mentality the Christ-idea now
flowed.

Mankind complain that they cannot "prove" God. But Paul long since
declared emphatically that to prove Him the human mind must be
transformed. In the light of the great ideas which had dawned upon him
in the past few days--the nature of God as mind, unlimited, immanent,
eternal, and good; and the specious character of the five physical
senses, which from the beginning have deluded mankind into the false
belief that through them comes a true knowledge of the cosmos--Jose's
mentality was being formed anew.

Hegel, delving for truth in a world of illusion, summed up a lifetime
of patient research in the pregnant statement, "The true knowledge of
God begins when we know that things as they are have no truth in
them." The testimony of the five physical senses constitutes "things
as they are." But--if Jose's reasoning be not illogical--the human
mind receives no testimony from these senses, which, at most, can
offer but inse