The
carnal mind, focusing its gaze within the contracted boundary of physical sense-testimony, looks through the lens of its own misconceptions and sees as real that which never has existed in Truth.
Anciently
a rod was used as a symbol of spiritual understanding, and its spiritual significance has since grown clearer at each successive step in the line of higher thinking, until in this latter day, the symbol having disappeared before the effulgence of the Christ-idea, the active Christian Scientist is now found turning to that for which the rod stood, just as naturally as the flower turns its face to the sun for refreshing.
Two farmers were discussing crop conditions, and one complainingly said, "I read nearly every book on agriculture that I can lay my hands on, and yet I do not get good crops.
In
the fourteenth century the great Italian poet Petrarch described the conditions of human existence as they appeared to him, and probably his description truly applies to every age and people of our planet.
An interesting letter from a correspondent contains the following statement: "The fundamental fact on which the whole structure of Christian Science is based is the denial of matter, the negation of the material.
It is a long time since we read anything so palpably weak and misleading in the nature of a criticism of Christian Science as that published in a late Gazette.
Is there a man living who is interested in things spiritual, ethics, the effect of intellectual development upon faith in the creeds of the orthodox, who has not wished that he might take up the Bible, or at least the New Testament, as a book fresh from the press?
