In view of the fact of such increasing interest in the subject of Mind as a healing agency, we are also admonished of the fatal danger of its counterfeit. Since life-issues are at stake in this consideration, the demand is imperative to "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the House of Jacob their sins"(Isaiah viii. 1). The world is flooded with teaching, practice, and literature which are fatal adulterations of the Truth, yet purporting to be genuine. Their relative position is like that of the magicians of Egypt, with their enchantments, compared with Moses and Aaron, with the Rod of God in their hand.
It may well and truly be said of some,—perhaps many,—who are dealing out copiously this spurious medication, as Jesus said of one of old: "He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me" (Matthew xxvi. 23).
To all, without restriction, who have been taught the power of Mind, and its action from the true basis, yet who have heretofore wilfully turned therefrom,—perverting the same,—or to any still among our ranks who are possibly considering this measure, I would say: "Beware! lest, despising God's appointed leadership to this age, and forsaking the post of duty in the extremity of experience, there should follow the like enactment of Justice as marked a similar period in the early Christian history." The Apostle Paul hath declared that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Today we have the same revealed and more marvellously defined as Spiritual Understanding, denominated Christian Science.
