But, even as this black-out, of perhaps the most important thing in life, was brought upon us by an old-fashioned and superficial science, so the more enlightened scientists of to-day are endeavouring to raise the curtain. To begin with, scientists no longer think they know about all there is to be known—they are stressing their ignorance instead of their knowledge. One affirms that the very actions of every-day life partake of the nature of miracles. And there are others whose writings take them into account. But it has been left to a United States scientist—Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, a Nobel prize-winner—to come forward and state that, as a result of his researches in medical science, a negative attitude to miracles can no longer be sustained. He claims to have witnessed even the healing of cancer by prayer. And now he has gone a stage further. In the Reader’s Digest for April last Dr. Carrel states: “Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity . . . it is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called ‘laws of nature.'” If we heard this pronouncement from a pulpit we should regard it as mere assertion, and subconsciously affirm that this is an age of science. But here is one of the greatest scientists in the world who is making this statement as a result of his research. Prayer, a force as great as gravity! Gravity is unseen, but we recognise its reality, and, although we do not understand what it is, we do not label it as “superstition.” As the corner stone of a new and better world, should we not seek in the secular knowledge of to-day to lift the miracle black-out of last century from our national mentality?