A BREATH of heaven suggests to many people some heaven-sent inspiration which lifts them momentarily out of their material environment and revitalizes them. Usually this inspiration seems a rare and fleeting experience, the emergence of an unsuspected spiritual streak in their otherwise material make-up.
Just as opening one small window can transform the atmosphere of a whole room, so one spiritual thought is sufficient to give human consciousness a breath of heaven which, Christian Science explains, can bring instant relief from physical distress or mental depression. But spiritual inspiration should be more than an occasional, elusive whiff. Through the study of Christian Science, it is possible for one so to spiritualize human thought that it can rise above the difficulties of material environment, whether uncongenial, physical, mental, geographical, or national.
At the time of the dedication of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, a newspaper reporter made this comment (Pulpit and Press by Mrs. Eddy, p. 79): "There is something in the constitution of man that requires the religious sentiment as much as his lungs call for breath; indeed, the breath of his soul is a belief in God."
