When
we first begin to work in Christian Science, we find a task confronting us which requires unbounded patience and persistence, the task of replacing the slovenly, illogical, confused, sinful thoughts and thinking processes of the carnal mind, by the orderly, logical, right thinking of divine Mind.
Christian Science
teaches that in order to comprehend God aright, and to understand our divine sonship, our eternal unity with God, thought must be freed from false trusts and the erroneous conclusions resulting therefrom.
Ever
since the fruit from the "tree of knowledge" was first eaten, the world has taken upon its shoulders the responsibility of designating the right and wrong of human belief.
When
one finds that another is entertaining a belief which differs radically and yet honestly from his own, and that one deems it worth while to consider the reasons for the difference, it is useful to compare the points of view.
In his last letter to your paper "Junius" enumerates again the good things he concedes to be in Christian Science, and generously adds another in that he "recognizes The Christian Science Monitor as a good newspaper.
Your correspondent is perfectly correct when he says that the power of the will, or, as he expresses it, of mind over matter, was known thousands of years before the Science of Christianity was discovered.
