THERE
is perhaps no more favorite method whereby the so-called human mind attempts to defeat or to delay a Christian Science healing than that which continually puts it off until tomorrow.
In an article entitled "Just Nerves" a writer, speaking of sufferers from neurasthenia who seek a permanent cure, says, "Their minds are fixed on a magic drug which will instantly, for always, secure heaven's best treasures, peace and health," and adds, "There is no cure that way.
There is no disposition to evade the responsibility which rests upon Christian Science to prove by its fruits its fitness to live, but it is fair to note that since the early Christian church it is the only religion that has submitted itself to such a test.
If one goes among those who attend Christian Science services regularly, he will find that for a very large percentage of them Christian Science has furnished a "Key to the Scriptures," and has made the Bible a daily companion and constant source of inspiration where it had formerly been a closed book.
If the leaders of the religious faith known as Christian Scientists were responsible for no other institution than their publication The Christian Science Monitor, they could find it ample justification for their denominational existence.
In
Christian Science we are taught that all conditions, both good and bad, are purely mental states, that the only real is the spiritual, and that we suffer from thoughts, not from things.
One
day I was walking on a woodland path with a young Scientist who had but a short time before been healed by the word of Truth after years of sickness and pain.
