Christian Science
presents the quality of humility as conducive to dominion over evil, never subjection to it, for one who is truly humble seeks to prove the omnipotence of God, good, at all times; seeks, through the recognition that there is but one Mind, to bring "into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Were
one to search the pages of the Old Testament, he would find no more definite and appealing statements of the demands of true worship than appears in the words of the prophet Micah.
Throughout
the ages materiality has dogged the footsteps of the spiritually-minded, advancing plausible reasons why the pursuit of the ideal should be surrendered, or else threatening disaster, always in the attempt to deter the progress of one who has taken his stand for the good and the true.
Christendom
has come pretty generally to believe that only through the transformation of thought which reforms the sinful can the kingdom of heaven be entered.
When
Paul wrote, "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace," he indicated both the cause of all human misery and its cure.