Article August 3, 1899 Issue

Suggestions to a Beginner

Arthur T. Morey

Times

My Dear Friend:—In reply to your good letter I will try to tell you something of my impressions of Christian Science. I wish I might do justice to the beautiful truths that have come into my life.

Because of a mistake of my own I will say, first, do not accept anything you cannot understand, remembering, of course, that one cannot expect to fully comprehend some of the deeper truths until he has demonstrated some of the lesser or introductory ones.

In my own case, I soon found from the personnel that this people were one in whom I could place confidence, for they seemed to be those referred to in the following line: "Through whom the current of everlasting life flows still and deep and strong." I felt that no harm could come to me among those who professed to be controlled by Love alone and, indeed, whose lives indicated it. So I have been content to drift, to go slowly, and quietly and surely develop, for "Heaven is not reached at a single bound." What I mean is this: Refuse to coerce your reason or think you must indulge in any mental aberrations, as I thought, for remember that spirituality, which is merely the capacity for understanding Truth, is the very perfection of reason.

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