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Thy Book is here, I hold it now With hesitating hand; But, ere I ope, give me the power, Dear Lord,—to understand! What lies within? What may I learn? A thought too great and grand For such as I—so frail, so small, So weak—to understand? Father above, I’m wandering towards The good and better land: Ah! guide my footsteps in Thy way And help me—understand.

Written by one who is not a Scientist, but who like a little child lost in the dark is crying vainly for the light. She does not know as yet what the Key to the Scriptures contains. The book lies before her. She will read it soon, and though she has been a freethinker all her life, she prays for understanding before opening it.

ONOTO WATANNA.