FOR some time I have been deeply impressed with the wonderful progress our Cause is making in the world, and, as a student of Christian Science, I take a vast deal of pleasure in noting some of the many marvelous changes that have taken place in the universal thought, in regard to Christian Science, in the past eight or nine years, during which time I have been an interested and persistent investigator. Some of these changes in public opinion are very interesting to Scientists, and point conclusively to the fact that the Christian Science leaven of Truth and Love is surely leavening the religious thought of our country and, I might say, of the whole civilized world.
When the writer began to investigate this truth, he found that it was not always safe to mention the subject even to his most intimate acquaintances, for fear of disrupting long established friendships, and of taking the risk of being called a fool for opinion's sake. Now, however, he is pleased to note that his friends and acquaintances give respectful attention when Christian Science is mentioned, and many are now ready to be enlightened on the subject.
After I had withdrawn from the old church of my childhood, and identified myself with this new gospel of healing, some of my former church associates declared that I had lost my mind; and in fact I had— I had lost the false sense of it, but I had gained the true. Of course I did not realize it then, but soon thereafter I felt very certain, and I now know, that during all my life before coming to Christian Science, I had been mildly insane, a victim of that mortal-mind lunacy which has placed a mighty barrier between man and his Creator. It is now very clear to me that all mental obliquity, all aberrations of mind, all the varied manifestations of morbidity, madness, and evil thinking that distract humanity and palsy human effort and aspiration, are due wholly to the illusions and vagaries of mortal mind; and Truth is the only remedy. True sanity is spirituality lived and demonstrated, and I believe the day will come, though perhaps many generations distant, when the spiritually minded only will be considered perfectly sane.
