The
desire to be good is the first essential to living a good life; but this desire alone does not bring that knowledge of God which overcomes the sense of evil.
Christian Science should not be confounded with the Emmanuel movement or Christian psychology, and it is not the exercise of one human mind over another human mind and body; it does not depend on the will-power of the practitioner or the patient.
Our critic, in his frank and fearless inquiry into the nature of prayer, correctly states the position of the Christian Scientists, who hold it to be the natural result of God's law for sickness as well as sin to disappear before the light of spiritual understanding.
In
working out the problems of daily life, one thing that seems to hinder the progress of many who are taking their first steps in Christian Science is a desire to outline or direct the way in which they desire the truth to act.
