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There are two methods of teaching in the New Thought, each repudiating the other as false. One busies itself with expounding the active "I do" side of life and ignores the changeless "I AM," while the other recognizes only the "I AM" and ignores the "I do." These contending factions remind me of the old fable concerning two knights who approached a trophy shield from opposite directions. One side of this shield was gold and the other silver; thus each knight, seeing but one side, was led to dispute with the other about the metal composing it, until from words they came to blows, when, luckily, just at this juncture, a third knight appeared upon the scene, to whom the dispute was referred. This knight looked upon both sides of the shield and then informed the disputants that the subject of dissension was gold upon one side and silver upon the other.

Let us suppose that the third knight had not looked at both sides. Had he looked at one side only, he must, in opinion, have taken a stand either upon one side or the other and pronounced the shield to be either gold or silver.

Then when other knights were added to the company, each would naturally enroll himself in one faction or the other according to his angle of vision, and the factions would grow until the original two disputants would swell