One
of the greatest blessings that Christian Science has brought to the world is the spiritual understanding which enables us to get away from the material sense of things and find the spiritual sense.
While
much has been written in explanation and justification of the acceptance of fees by Christian Science practitioners, very little has been said concerning the matter regarded from the standpoint of the patient.
A short
time ago the writer overheard a remark made by a member of one of the older churches, to the effect that Christian Scientists were the most intolerant religionists he had ever met.
Proper precaution, reasonable care, pure food, fresh air, are all in keeping with the teachings of Christian Science, since discretion is more nearly right than carelessness, and the purest, the most wholesome in human belief, most nearly approaches the ideal.
For the past fifteen years I have observed the effect of Christian Science on those who study and practise it, and I have never known nor heard of a person becoming insane as a result of such study and practice; but I have known of many persons being healed of insanity through Christian Science.
"A great many people are under the impression that it takes a long while to read the New Testament," remarked a well known preacher the other day, "but as a matter of fact it only requires sixty hours for the average reader to read the entire book; or, in other words, if a man were to read an hour each day he would finish the book inside of two months.
The Scriptures record that Jesus' life-work was one of regeneration; he healed the sick, he redeemed the sinner, he raised the dead; and he said of those who believed on him, "The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to my Father.
