To a person absorbed in the battledore and shuttlecock game of material existence, with his affairs enveloped chiefly in a hustle, hullabaloo, and devil-take-the-hind-most atmosphere, the word "spirit," or "spirituality," seems shrouded in impenetrable mystery and superstition.
It certainly seemed thus once to the writer, and I well remember in my early business days, before learning a little of the grand lessons of Science, how I looked askance at this word, and many times I declared that if it required any particular spirituality to understand Christian Science, and become a Scientist, it was not for me, supposing that the quality of spirituality was possessed by only a certain few.
With the hope that it may be of interest to some, I am glad to give my experience. After many severe mental struggles, I found that I had been sorely deceived and prejudiced concerning this word and its nature, and that the cloak of sentimentality, emotionalism, cant, and creed, which for centuries had been thrown about it, was utterly foreign to its true nature.
