There are those who, while deeply interested in Christian Science, seem quite shut out from its benefits by the conviction that the saving and effective apprehension of its truth is attained with great difficulty, and that only the intellectually and spiritually favored may hope to enter its inner courts.
This wholly unauthorized, untrue, and unprogressive mental state may result from a very general temptation to lethargy, or it may grow out of the presumptuous denial of spiritual achievement, if the deepest spiritual problems are not immediately solved; or it may be superinduced by a discussion of error which does not mean its destruction, but rather its enthronement; an assertion of its presence and subtlety which intensifies the sense of its reality, and thus discourages the beginner and the uninformed. As students of Christian Science, we all have occasion to remember those words of the Master, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," from which the inference is clear that the struggle, the wrestling, the burden-bearing is all "without the gates" of that kingdom of Heaven, the inhabitants of which know the nothingness of error, and are at peace.
In the endeavor to meet this abnormal condition of thought, we must know that while it is an insuperable undertaking for the carnal mind to apprehend the things of God, Principle is reflected by its idea with perfect ease and naturalness; and that humanity's awakening to Truth is largely determined by the persistence with which every contrary suggestion is denied.
