We
are prone to think our own problems are harder to solve than problem of others, and therefore we accept discordant conditions as facts, and the consequent suffering as unavoidable and as something to be borne with the best grace possible.
It
is related that at one time Michelangelo called at the studio of Raphael, and finding his friend absent, examined the canvasses that were in the room.
In the Weekly Scotsman there appeared a short article by "Physician," entitled "Subconsciousness," which conveyed the impression that the practice of Christian Science is a process of suggestion.
"I desire to express my gratitude to God for His many blessings to me during the past five years of military service, as I feel that I owe to Christian Science the fact that I am alive to-day.
As Christian Science proves itself to be the most efficacious existing means of overcoming sin and its consequent sickness, disease, and so forth, and as it operates entirely through an understanding of the teaching of Christ Jesus, it should by no means be classed as a form of infidelity and denounced, as appears to have been done by a contributor in a recent issue.
Christian Science does not teach any use of the so-called human mind,—suggestion, mesmerism, hypnotism, occultism, spiritualism, or any degree or measure of so-called mental influence.
It is probable that if a hundred persons were asked to explain what they believe health to be, ninety-nine at least would agree that it is a state of the body from which disease is absent.
It
was in a high school room during her first year of teaching in a small town that the writer began to put into practice the truth she was learning in Christian Science.
