Article April 13, 1918 Issue

Your correspondent evidently does not understand the...

Charles W. J. Tennant—Scotland

Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette

Your correspondent evidently does not understand the metaphysical meaning of St. Paul's saying, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Had he done so he would have understood how impossible it is to gain an understanding of Christian Science by "a strong effort of intellectual concentration." Spiritual understanding must always come as a revelation, through spiritual discernment. No effort of the human will can ever attain it. "This understanding," Mrs. Eddy writes, on page 505 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainments; it is the reality of all things brought to light."

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