In
the practice of Christian Science one often finds that those seeking help will report, before the complete healing comes about, that they have had certain periods of relief, lulls in the seeming tempest of trouble, which have been welcome foretastes of what whole freedom is.
The Fifth Commandment, though it may seem almost the easiest to understand of the ten words of the Decalogue, is, in some ways, perhaps the most difficult.
The
simple gladness to be alive is fresh and vital because it is the proof of Life itself, untouched by any confused sense of human ways and means nurtured by the supposed mortal mind as it expands its unreal belief.
The
apostle James put the practice of Christian Science in one concrete sentence when he wrote, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
The
technique of prescribing drugs, like that of every other phase of medical or surgical practice, has changed immensely, since the discovery of Christian Science, as the doctors themselves have recognized that the effect of a prescription on a patient is mental.
One
phase of the overturning that has been going on throughout the world is a questioning of the Bible by those who consider themselves modernists in philosophy, literature, and general thinking.