The writer recalls an incident in his youth that points up the vast difference between a false sense of sympathy and the spiritually enlightened concepts of being a good neighbor.
Have you ever been in a place where someone seemed intent on keeping the thought of those present on a very low level through lewd insinuations, off-color jokes, and perhaps objectionable behavior?
As modern children of Israel passing through the barren wilderness of material thinking and living, we need daily manna from heaven just as urgently as the ancient Hebrews did in their wanderings through their wilderness.
Sometimes students of Christian Science tend to make a reality of the mortal, or carnal, mind by blaming unpleasant daily happenings on it and building up belief in its power over their thinking and acting.
