Action is so manifestly the outcome of volition that the human mind claims, without contradiction, the ability of producing, continuing, or stopping almost any action of the human being at will.
An
experience of mine a year or so ago, while living on a claim on the desert, has proved of such general application since, that I am prompted to relate it in the hope that it may be helpful to others.
Among
the many illusions of mortal mind, there is none more strange than the belief that people are subject to what are called moods, feeling either cheerful or depressed as the case may be.
To
heal according to Christian Science, a spiritual understanding of the Bible is necessary,—a spiritual understanding of God and man's relation to Him, a spiritual understanding of creation,—and this can be gained only by earnest, prayerful study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Our
beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote so tenderly of "each waiting hour," held in the keeping of Life divine, wrote also of those other hours, when we should "wake to know a world more bright".
A writer sends these words, after a vivid description of one of the most terrific battles on the western front in France: "One never knows how near he is to God or how near God is to him until he goes through or experiences what I have just experienced in this battle.
On question of religion it can hardly be expected that ministers or the so-called orthodox churches will agree with the teachings of Christian Science, but in a recent sermon on the "Value of Theosophy, Christian Science, and New Thought," a local minister has made the mistake of saying that the teachings of Berkeley and Kant are fundamentally similar to Christian Science.
