Such
a sense of gratitude for the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures given us by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, comes when reading the twenty-second chapter of Genesis that I feel led to express it, hoping thereby to help others who are taking the human footsteps which are leading up to the light of spiritual understanding.
As
spiritual law has been revealed in Christian Science and as every day it is being more and more clearly understood by an increasing number of people, its demands upon mortals are leaving them bankrupt indeed.
A reminder
by contrast came to the writer, not so long ago, in the shape of an artistically printed booklet telling how an exact reproduction of a widely known grotto had been made on the height of an Arizona hill, in the heart of the land that one of our poets has described as "beloved of the sun and bereft of the rain.
Humanity stumbles along, grumbling at the weather, studying the sky and the barometer for some prospect of improvement, never dreaming that there is any connection between the condition of the atmosphere and the condition of human thought, that the purification of the human thought, or what Paul calls "the carnal mind," would result in a clearer atmosphere, with a lessening of the extremes of heat and cold.
A more careful reading of the letter to which exception is taken by the self-appointed critic of Christian Science writing in a recent issue would have satisfied him that no great difference exists between his contention that sin comes from wrong choice of a free moral agent, and the Christian Science teaching that sin, as the term is generally understood, is solely the product of mortal mind, alias mortal man.
Paul
in writing to the Thessalonians says, "The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ," but the marginal note explains the better translation as being, "The Lord direct your hearts.
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For ten or twelve years prior to turning to Christian Science I was subject to attacks of quinsy, sometimes attended by severe hemorrhages, and I was never free from fear of taking cold.
It is four years since Christian Science was brought to my notice by a friend, and I would like to express a little of my gratitude for what it has done for me, as at that time I was and had been a great sufferer, and very miserable.
Jesus' command, "Freely ye have received, freely give," has many times come to my thought when the demand of Truth has presented itself to acknowledge through the periodicals the great blessings received from Christian Science.
In March, 1917, I came into Christian Science through reading the testimonies while I was suffering from an acute attack of chronic kidney trouble of twenty years' standing.
Christian Science came to me about eight years ago when I was sorely in need of something outside of human ability to lift me out of mental, moral, and physical difficulties.
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