I had an experience with a student whose knowledge of Christian Science had become a burden to her, in this way: She was "by nature" a person whose convictions on all points were vivid in the extreme, and who on entering into Science was instantly an extremist in that. She became morbid to such a degree she did not dare to admire her two beautiful children. She was afraid to let them see she loved them, because it was as she expressed it to me, all "a lie." "Those little bodies were not hers." "She was not their mother," etc. She was distressed that she took pleasure in her house and in the pleasant things of material life. In fact she became so absorbed in watching herself, to see that she did not go astray that she had no inclination or time to help others. By some remarks that have reached me lately, I find this is a growing thought. If this lady had kept on in this course she would have become insane; for she was trying to make a personal righteousness. The truth eluded her, mocked her; because she was trying to fasten it to the lie of the flesh. "Having no righteousness which is by faith, they go about trying to make self-righteousness." Her cure came when she was sent about her "Father's business."
So to see the want of the world as to exclude our own wants, is the remedy for the inclination to establish self in the "high place."—
