Nothing but a misapprehension could cause any one to confuse Christian Science Mind-healing with mental suggestion, or attribute the healing efficacy of the former to the latter.
The
student who takes up Christian Science and begins to assimilate the ideas set forth in the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
No one can be blind to the sadness and sore bitterness evidenced on every hand as the result of unfaithfulness, lack of stability in the relations of men with each other; and undoubtedly those involved in such experiences and those who look upon them are one in their desire to have them healed.
The
fact that our periodicals are not only for the help and healing of the beginner in Christian Science, but for the practitioner as well, was fully proved to me recently.
Every
individual will admit a paramount desire for that which would be conducive to his own welfare and good, and also a willingness and purpose to contribute to the attainment of this end, so far as he knows how to do so ; hence there must be recognized in extension a sincere universal desire for good, and this desire is greatly accentuated by an acquaintance with Mrs.
Recently,
while looking over the long array of books on the shelves of a public library, a Christian Scientist was impressed with the valuelessness of much that has been written to aid in solving the problems of humanity, and he went back in memory to his impressions when first visiting a large library.