Christian Scientists accept the statement of Christ Jesus that the kingdom of heaven is within, and they understand this to mean that heaven is not a locality, but a condition of thought.
Christian Science and mental suggestion are as opposite as the poles—one is human, the other is divine; therefore they can in no way be classified as one and the same.
It is being daily proven by practical demonstrations of the healing of physical and moral diseases, that Christian Science is both scientific and Christian.
Extraordinary as it is, it is nevertheless a matter of experience that the attempt to persuade the race to shake off the self-imposed shackles of evil invariably meets with suspicion and some degree of resentment.
The repentance which overtakes a man and replaces his physical sense of material creation with the spiritual sense of true creation is a mental one, and was expressed by Paul in the advice to "let that mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," for exactly in the proportion in which a man acquires the Mind of Christ, he comes to understand that creation is spiritual and not material, and then, in the words of Mrs.
One
afternoon, in trying to amuse a small and very wilful child who had been left in my care, I devised a plan which I felt sure would appeal to her little heart, and broached it to her, only to be met by a cold and stubborn refusal to cooperate.
It
is frequently the case that the beginner in the study of Christian Science, having not yet risen to that spiritual understanding which will later prove to him that "the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind".
