“It is chiefly the oil,” he replied. “I have a very good friend, a lady who is a Christian Scientist, and she tries to make me drop all my reliance on herbs and oils. But I say to her, ‘My dear lady, how can I deny all the reality in matter, when the most beautiful things in life are God’s wonderful handiwork expressed through Nature? The herbs of the field, the clays, the healing ointments—I think God put these things
