I crossed the lake with him one night and spent the evening in conversation." "What are your impressions of the man ?" "A shrewd, hard-headed, dogmatic Scotchman,--who neither smokes nor drinks." "Who calls himself Elijah come to earth again." "I had the temerity to ask him concerning his pretensions in that direction, and he said, substantially, 'I make no claims or assertions, but the Bible says Elijah will return to earth; it does not say in what form or how he will manifest himself; he might choose your personality; he might choose mine; he has not chosen yours, there are some evidences that he has chosen mine." "Proof most conclusive." "It satisfies his followers.

After all, perhaps it does not matter so much what we believe as how we believe." A few moments later we were passing the new Christian Science Temple on Drexel Boulevard,--a building quite simple and delightful, barring some garish lamps in front.
"There is another latter-day sect," said the Professor; "one of the phenomena of the nineteenth century." "You would not class them with the Dowieites ?" "By no means, but an interesting part of a large whole which embraces at one extreme the Dowieites.

The connecting link is faith.

But the very architecture of the temple we have just passed illustrates the vast interval that separates the two." "Then you judge a sect by its buildings ?" "Every faith has its own architecture.

The temple at Karnak and the tabernacle at Salt Lake City are petrifactions of faith.