As illumined by the teachings of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, every honest seeker after truth has in the Bible an unerring guide and counselor, an infallible remedy for every discordant condition, physical, mental, or moral. If only there is a sincere desire to perceive and obey divine Truth in any given circumstance or difficulty, the tactics of error can be detected and its seeming influence rendered inoperative by a confident appeal to the inspired Word and a faithful application of the metaphysical method revealed to us in Christian Science.
At the end of an apparently rather trying day, while prayerfully meditating as to the cause of a sense of mental dimness and a seeming temporary cessation of spiritual activity, the writer almost mechanically opened the Bible at the sixth chapter of St. John's gospel, and her attention was instantly arrested by the fifteenth verse, which reads, "When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone." At once the light of Truth penetrated the seeming cloud, and the disturbing influence, so subtle as to have quite eluded the mental vigilance which the student had believed she was exercising, was revealed. It was clearly seen that while earnestly striving to live the Christlife and to reflect the divine nature, and after having attained to a certain measure of success in demonstrating the healing power of Truth for one's self and others, it was necessary to guard thought most carefully against the suggestion of any mental or spiritual efficiency or superiority in one's self.
The gratitude of those whom one has been privileged to help would sometimes lead them to place the helper on a mental pedestal, to look to him and speak of him as one exalted above his fellows. It is therefore well to pause, when error would seek to make the helper give his own mental consent to this thought, to consider the mesmeric effect which such an admission would have, not only in dimming his own mental vision but also in allowing the shadow of personality to come between the patient and Christ, Truth.
