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 "It sure is!"

"Well, that is the way that we Christian Scientists feel, Bob. We are grateful more than anything else,—grateful from the bottoms of our hearts to her for giving us the results of her study and work and demonstration. We see the years of wrongly directed effort, and unhappiness, and pain, that she has saved us from, and the start that she has given us toward doing our work right for all time, because she has shared with us the fruit of her labor; and why shouldn't we be grateful, and why shouldn't we be glad to admit that we are indebted to her for the help that has come to us? If you feel that way about Edison, who has helped you in just material things, isn't it natural that we should feel the same, only ever and ever so much stronger, since she has helped us to know how to live best for all time?"

"But," said Bob, "the feeling that I have is just wholesome gratitude,—and a good deal of reverence and wonder, of course,—for one who has accomplished what he has, and given it to the world; but I don't worship him, nor think him supernatural."

"And neither do we either worship our leader,