“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
--John 7:24

It has been asserted that the end and aim of all religions is so to elevate the mind above the plane of the senses that the truly religious man will be able to walk more intelligently by faith than the material man walks by sight. When Jesus said that we were to judge not according to appearances he was speaking from the standpoint of scientific wisdom as well as from that of spiritual necessity.

Today, after all the centuries of scientific investigation, the most thoughtful men of the race know what a foolish thing it is to base one’s assertions on observed phenomena.

Looking at that which is now termed “the envelope of the globe,” or what most people call the sky, one would imagine that he saw a beautiful, blue canopy, or covering, over the earth. At one time, we are told, this sky was considered solid. But today every school child knows that what appears to be a solid substance, in which the stars