Article September 4, 1902 Issue

Hourly Benefits of Christian Science

Alfred Farlow with contributions from Whittier

Boston Times

Many have a belief that the principal, if not the exclusive purpose of Christian Science, is to heal bodily ills. The writer started out to investigate Christian Science with a view of being healed physically; but, in the early stages of his experience with this new science, he lost all interest in the physical healing and became deeply engrossed in its spiritual aspects. He was gradually relieved of physical disease as he became imbued with the thought of this Science, but this was without any special effort to be healed. Mrs. Eddy has said in her little book, "Rudimental Divine Science," "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the buglecall to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin."

We will agree that a normal, clear, and harmonious mental condition is essential to good judgment, quick and proper decision. We oftentimes hear it said, I am not myself to-day and I do not see the proper thing to do. One needs to be guided by divine intelligence, by that intelligence which is perfect and absolutely correct, in order to be right in deportment, and we have the Scriptural promise, "I will guide thee with mine eye." It is readily understood that our best decisions and movements are not the outcome of confusion or of a dull, stupid, mental condition. We perceive most clearly in our moments of peace and harmony, and the Scriptures teach, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee."

It is demonstrable that those who dwell much upon the fact that the divine Mind directly rules and governs all things, and who repudiate in their own consciousness the vacillating, uncertain, human will, see most clearly and are enabled to act most wisely in the every-day affairs of life.

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