Article June 18, 1910 Issue

"THE TIMES OF REFRESHING."

GUSTAVUS S. PAINE.

Since, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 254 of Science and Health, "we have not the power to demonstrate what we do not understand," there are times when mortal existence seems more real than spiritual life, even to those who are trying to be Christian Scientists. At such times, though we realize that we have merely allowed the dark shadows of mortal belief to disturb us, and though we know that the condition in which we find ourselves is only temporary, we may feel ourselves drifting along in the erroneous belief, seemingly unable to rise out of it. The mortal mind, seeing a necessity for evil, psychological or physiological causes for disease, and pleasure in sense experiences, has little inclination and no power to awaken itself from its own illusions. It cannot understand its own nothingness. Yet that mind which Wordsworth speaks of as

beset
With images, and haunted by herself,

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