Quite
often we say to ourselves that if we could only remember everything we read what wonderful knowledge we would possess; but does it ever occur to us that perhaps we have been trying to remember the wrong things, or the nonessentials, instead of sifting the chaff of mortal, finite sense from the wheat of spiritual truth?
All
scientific mental work is based upon spiritual understanding, which at once separates such work from anything that may seem to be accomplished upon the plane of human suggestion or will-power.
The quotation in a recent issue shows that at the present time Christian Science is obtaining a hearing and an admission from thoughtful men of the practical utility thereof.
A speaker in his excellent address on "Pain and Its Significance," makes reference to Christian Scientists, intimating that under the spell of religious zeal they are able to efface the sensation of pain.
The chief justice of the New York court of appeals, in a memorandum accompanying a decision handed down by that court last week, said, "I deny the power of the legislature to make it a crime to treat disease by prayer.
Our critic admits that healing is accomplished through Christian Science, but he claims that this healing is accomplished by psychic suggestion, which could be practised outside of Christian Science.
The editor says, "Many people of today are embracing Christian Science under the pretext that it is a superior form of the Christian religion—that it is the highest and best form of that religion to be found in the world today," and I agree with that statement of the editor, for it is now very generally conceded that Christian Science is indeed the very "best form of religion to be found in the world today.
