te Newby was growing more worldly; she began to lose her former
distinctions of right and wrong, and the change was beginning to be
made manifest in many different ways. She began to ignore Jake and to
show an aversion to material things and she began to develop a sort of
overmystical attitude toward life in general.

Finally, Jake asked her point-blank, "Kate, what is the matter with
you? You are acting so queer."

"Well, Jake, I might as well tell you," answered Kate. "I am a
Christian Scientist."

If Jake Newby had been hit with a cannon ball he would not have been
worse shocked.

"Christian Science!" he echoed. "Of all things! Where did you get hold
of that?"

Then she told him of getting the leaflet, then Science and Health,
and how she had gradually been won to embrace it. Jake was clearly
disturbed, and started to argue with Kate, but she had the advantage
in that he did not know anything about it. So Jake thought of Robert
Davis.

"Say, Robert," said Jake to Robert the first time that they met after
his talk with Kate about Christian Science, "do you know anything
about Christian Science?"

"Indeed I do," said Robert, "my mother once got somewhat entangled in
it, and through her efforts to get out I was led to study it."

"Come over and talk to Kate, then," said Jake. "She has taken up with
it and it is ruining her. Please come over and talk with her about it.
We must have help."

"All right, I will come," answered Robert.

On the next evening Robert found time to go, and soon he and Kate were
talking on Christian Science while Jake and the others listened.

"Now, I will read from Science and Health," said Robert. "See if you
can understand it. See if it does not make you feel like scratching
your head in order to help to comprehend it. 'What is man? Answer--Man
is not matter, he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other
material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the
image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness
of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect....
Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot
depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender
the capacity or freedom to sin' (page 475). Can you understand that?"

"For the life of me, I can't," said Jake, but, of course Jake could
not be expected to understand it, thought Kate.

"Now, here is another. 'Therefore the only reali