It
is related of King Asa that when he was diseased in his feet "he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians," and "slept with his fathers, and died.
At the close of our Master's long service to humanity, after he had taught, preached, and proven God's ability and willingness to heal the children of men from every form of sin and sickness, he meekly laid down his earthly life, condemned as a criminal.
I pause, look back, and mentally follow my wanderings through many phases of the search for Truth up to the time when Christian Science crossed my path.
To one who has become aware of the danger that is incurred when mortal mind fears are aroused and allowed to hold ungoverned sway in the public mind, it seems a sad and bitter thing to contemplate that the more exalted the personage who falls a victim to accident or disease, the more useful or beloved, so much the more serious is the weight of those concentrated fears upon the unconscious sufferer.
During
the recent financial flurry, which has come to be called "the little panic of 1907," the business world has been asking itself the question, How far is it right to be optimistic in the face of business depression, when we know that fundamentally things are on a sound basis?
