Some
of those who have not carefully investigated Christian Science seem sometimes to get the impression that the healing which comes through its ministrations is the result of action of the human mind in some form.
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.
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 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.
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.
