As the spiritual concept of substance appears to us, we see how often the seeming power of self-mesmerism has excluded us, like "gates of brass" and "bars of iron," from many advantages,—from the opportunity to work, from happiness, and from the privilege of bestowing happiness upon others.
If
the winds did but store the sighings and sobbings of the sad hearts of all the ages, and did the clouds but hold the bitter tears wrung from the eyes of the countless millions who have fretted through a futile material existence, then, surely, joy could breathe no more in such a burdened air, and sensual pleasures would be drowned in floods of rain, salt anguish.
The
immature thought of many students is doubtless responsible in no small degree for prevalent misconceptions which tend to prejudice people against Christian Science and to blind their eyes to a just recognition of the great good it is accomplishing throughout the world.
If unreserved and lasting faith in Christ Jesus and full belief in and adherence to the inspired word of the Bible, together with a practical effort to live in accordance with its teachings, constitutes Christianity, then Christian Science is Christian.
If we believe in the teachings of the Bible, we cannot divorce physical and moral healing, for the entire Bible, and especially the teachings of Jesus, lays great stress upon healing as well as upon reformation.
The
long, brown line of the "Pacific Express" was drawing steadily over the great plains which stretch, in fertile farness, eastward from the foot-hills of the Rockies.
