Editor Journal: Once more we crave space in your columns, earnestly desiring that Truth may guide our pen to utter thoughts that shall be manna to many who are hungering and thirsting after spiritual things. Though scarcely yet in the a-b-c class of Christian Scientists, and though the growth in science is slow, we feel that it is sure. From the great satisfaction and comfort found in our readings of Mrs. Eddy's "Science and Health," we think that every young man and woman in the land, who has the least conception of the importance and grandeur of right thinking and right living, should read this book several times over, until they became familiar with the nomenclature of the science, and the "new tongue" mentioned in the last chapter of St. Mark's Gospel. At first it is a little abstruse to those not familiar with this kind of reading, but when thoroughly read and studied, as it must be, it becomes very plain indeed. Upon our first glimpse of the truth of Christian Science and its great importance, our spinal column at once straightened up, and we now stand considerably higher in our boots, and from that day to this have stood and walked more erect than ever before; which reminds us of these lines of an unknown poet, which are decidedly elevating in their tendency:—
"Live no lie of circumspection,
Binding thy rich manhood down
To a painful genuflection,
And a smile upon a frown;
Stand up high, and straight, within thee,
With a brave heart, true and strong;
Bear thy burdens as thine honors
Through the surging, cynic throng;
Proudly—for the sense of trueness,
Meekly—for thy trust in God,
Calmly—for the richer fulness
Found beneath the bitter rod."
Is it not cause for jubilation, when one first begins to get a realizing sense of his spiritual birthright—when one begins to understand his relation to God, and has proved Him to be "a very present help in trouble?" Is it not cause for rejoicing when he begins to get the spiritual sense of "all is mind," and that "in Him we live, move, and have our being?" Why should the children of Infinite Good go mourning all their days? or walk the streets with their heads bowed down like rushes? or as if they were fit companions for "the man with the muck rake," whom Bunyan's Pilgrim met in his journey to the celestial city? Goodness knows! mankind in general need to get up out of the low ground of self—up from the companionship of money-getters and moneybags, into the bright and glorious Immortal-Mind atmosphere.
