It
frequently happens that in time of sudden and apparently great danger, when no material aid is within reach, the person involved turns unconsciously to a power higher than his own, of which he has no definite idea, but which he hopes will assist him in his extremity.
Christian Science treatment establishes in the consciousness of the individual the wholesome truth that God is his Life, inasmuch as it is in Him we "live, and move, and have our being.
The physical healing in Christian Science is the result of some degree of spiritual regeneration in the individual, or an awakening to that natural, God-given consciousness which has been obscured by erroneous suggestion and false belief.
Christian Science plants itself unreservedly on the side of spirit and declares that spiritual things are the only real things and that the material universe is a false concept of the corporeal senses and will pass away.
In
the 19th chapter of Genesis we read that Lot, when commanded by God to come out of Sodom, and to escape to the mountain, obeyed only in part and begged that he might tarry in a city not so far off, saying, "Is it not a little one?
It
was long my desire to understand the Old Testament, as a well-thumbed first chapter of Genesis would testify, but my interest could never survive its seeming incongruities and I repeatedly abandoned the effort in despair, though I did cling to the familiar Psalms and to the New Testament.
A letter
recently received from a friend vividly recalls the date June 13, 1888, when our Leader addressed an audience which completely filled Central Music Hall, Chicago, then the largest and best hall in the city.
