I rejoice at the ideal womanhood of purity which he put before the girls.
I wish some one would preach purity to young men.
"July 1, 1883.

I went to hear Rev.Mr .-- -- at the Universalist church.
He enumerated some of the dangers that threaten us: one was 'The doctrines of scientists,' and he named Tyndale, Huxley, and Spencer.

I was most surprised at his fear of these men.

Can the study of truth do harm?
Does not every true scientist seek only to know the truth?
And in our deep ignorance of what is truth, shall we dread the search for it?
"I hold the simple student of nature in holy reverence; and while there live sensualists, despots, and men who are wholly self-seeking, I cannot bear to have these sincere workers held up in the least degree to reproach.

And let us have truth, even if the truth be the awful denial of the good God.