One
night last winter, while struggling to rise above an acute phase of an illness which had lingered for several days, and when the moment of victory still seemed a long way off, there came out of the gloaming in a most helpful way an incident remembered from childhood days.
The
human mind, being unable to deny the righteousness of Jesus' teachings, always strives to postpone their application to everyday life for the simple reason that only in this way can it continue to delude mankind and so prolong its so-called existence.
For
ages Christian people have been interested in the story of the Holy Grail,—the cup used, so the legend goes, by Jesus at the last supper, afterwards given to Joseph of Arimathea and carried into Britain, whence it disappeared, to become the object of the quest of the knights of the Table Round.
With reference to an editorial review of the book, "Systems of Psychotherapy or Spiritual Healing," I wish to make a brief explanation in behalf of Christian Science.