Christian Science, rightly understood and adhered to, satisfies all our needs. Its practical workings commend it to those matter-of-fact individuals to whom its spiritual significance is a dead letter. It seems to me that none can be so keenly appreciative of its benefits as they who have been healed by it.
To the despairing invalid—weary, beyond expression, of drugs and medical hygiene—the physical rejuvenation is but the forerunner of the spiritual awakening. The mother— unable from physical inability to perform her special duties, "only staying here for the sake of her children"—finds her physical renewal through Christian Science, then gains the understanding for herself, and lo! a new and more glorious dispensation dawns upon her household, and transforms it.
The remedy now for little childish ills and misfortunes, headaches and sore throats, is always at hand, and there is no more bribery to induce the little one to take some nauseous draught, against which—with more wisdom than his elders—he always rebelled. "Mother, treat me!" is the request, with the sweet faith of childhood; and how soon the little ones begin to understand and practise Christian Science themselves, taking it up so sweetly and naturally.
