The devotion of students of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," toward its author, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is often unpleasantly remarked upon by the world. Even those impressed by the letter of Science, who believe in the healing work, seem sometimes a trifle dazed on this point, by an indefinite prejudice against hero-worship, which, strange to say, never troubled them in their days of devotion to, say, Emerson, or Phillips Brooks.
It is a significant fact, however, that those who are doing the best work in Christianly Scientific healing and reforming, are those who have the deepest love and appreciation of her who has led and taught them. Also, that when the young student perceives, to some extent, the outlines of this most loved and lovable character, through which Love speaks, then Christian Science flows into his thought in fuller, freer tide of realization; he is assured and contented by beholding the purity through which Truth reaches him; and perceiving the beauty of a life brought into long-continued obedience to the law of Spirit, the beginner is encouraged and strengthened to bear the cross, to labor day and night, that he may attain to the selfless peace, joy, and power of such exalted living. The picture of this mental formation of goodness, drawn on the canvas of the century in broad, free lines of individuality, will illustrate to him the lives of past saints and martyrs; and there will scarce come an hour so dark wherein he cannot praise God that such a thing of moral strength and beauty not only can be, but is, and that he has been able to perceive it.
In the material world, two kinds of attraction are noticeable: one, the dread drawing of a whirlpool; the other, the power possessed by some scene of superb loveliness which thousands may cross seas and continents to enjoy.
