The
certainty of divine inheritance was made known to humanity by Christ Jesus when he said, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me;" and because of the fixity of the belief of mortals to-day that there is another power besides God, it is well to know that the converse of this immortal message is equally true.
To
be alone with God, to shut out materiality from thought, to contemplate the spiritual, is as an oasis in the desert, or wilderness, of material rush and strife.
When
one is first reaching out for an understanding of Christian Science with which to overcome disease or some other discordant condition, his thought is held, from the opening line of the Preface of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, by the possibility of immediately putting into practice the rules of divine healing and thereby gaining without delay the good promised as a result of this practice.
The report of the case of a child of a Christian Science practitioner having attended school while broken out with smallpox has received so much publicity that one naturally wonders if this is the only child that has gone out in public while affected with what the health officer might call contagion.
In a recent issue a reference is made to Christian Science in the article, "Talks on Health, by a Family Doctor," in which the author is represented as saying, "Do not wait to be cured by the suggestive powers of Christian Science or mesmerism.
The faculty of hope is so common to the human race and has been so generally commended as one of humanity's saving graces, that it comes with a touch of surprise to find that this sentiment, as much as any other human concept, needs to be healed; or, more exactly, to be replaced with a scientific expectation, which performs its function without betrayal.
