The
chastening influence of self-knowledge through which the loyal Scientist passes is a searching period, attended with surprising discoveries, bare-faced and humiliating.
The
last chapter of Deuteronomy and the first two chapters of Joshua narrate an incident of that memorable journey of the Israelites to the promised land which will prove helpful and instructive and well repay careful study on the part of Christian Scientists.
As many people are inquiring what Christian Science is, and wherein it differs from faith-healing and mental suggestion, perhaps you will allow me space for a few remarks on the subject.
These
words of Jesus, "A man's foes shall be they of his own household," as recorded in the tenth chapter of Matthew and quoted from the seventh chapter of Micah, literally interpreted, show the utter uselessness of any attempt to trust in or depend upon persons, even though they be one's closest and best friends.
