Healing in Christian Science results today, as in our Lord's ministry, from the wholesome, uplifting, vivifying influence upon human minds and bodies of that divine Truth and Love which emanate alone from, and are inherent in, the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus.
To a vast number of people, to the great majority probably of the citizens of the world, Christian Science healing still stands for a purely medical process.
The
word realization is used so frequently in our literature that it is of great importance that we understand it thoroughly before we can feel sure of deriving from the study of the literature the unbounded good with which it teems for those prepared to receive it.
The
straight and narrow way referred to in Scripture is a mental pathway, and Christian Scientists are endeavoring to tread it by abiding in right thinking.
It is patent to any earnest student of the fundamental truths of Christian Science that our clerical critic has not even a rudimentary understanding of its meaning, that his denunciations are founded upon a material basis, that he argues and declaims from a material standpoint alone, that he recognizes only the material body of Jesus.
Christian Scientists plant themselves unreservedly on the declaration of Jesus that "the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth," and the definition of God as above given is spiritual.
