The
light which Christian Science throws upon Jesus' teachings is revealing their deeper spiritual meaning and their practicality in everyday experience.
When
most people speak of being self-conscious, they are usually thinking of a self that is awkward, nervous, inferior, incapable, frustrated, or embarrassed.
A Christian Science
practitioner once told a woman who had been coming to her for healing for an illness which was not apparently yielding, that she must keep her thoughts on God.
"When
thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
By
hard struggle along the uncertain paths of "trial and error," progress and opposition, the human race has won for itself some semblance of self-government.
