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Rh was the answer to the question; and it might be that to a question sounding but slightly different a very different answer would be returned. We might ask, for instance, “Does it make my life more worth living?” And the answer to this might be, “It is the only thing that makes life worth living at all.”

Now I should think it a great thing if I could help ever so humbly in guiding some minds to the right type of expectation, the true and open attitude in which they will have a fair chance to feel their religion in its fulness and its simplicity.

I insist on two expressions in this last sentence. “Their religion”; my hope is not to suggest or advocate a new religion to them. It is to help them to reach the full value of their own. No man is so poor, I believe, as not to