One of Simon Peter's noblest qualities, namely his genuine trust in the Master, made him willing to declare, "We have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net." Toiling all the night in vain is the human method, but letting down the net in obedience to God's command incloses "a great multitude of fishes." Ecclesiastical ingenuity in its conceit has planned to further the progress of Christianity by the human method, only to find that the poor in spirit using the divine method inherit the kingdom and see God. The simple, single minded, poor in material belief but rich in spiritual perception, show the faith of the mustard seed and learn by obedience to remove mountains. Fears, tall as towers and acting in human consciousness as walled obstructions to spiritual progress, have vanished in a night with the dawning light of true understanding. The word of God was the healing touch which Jesus Christ brought to the world, the first ray of light to the dark ages. Mrs. Eddy toiled many years in the night, until Christian Science came into her consciousness with the light of revelation, and restored Christian healing to its rightful place.
Many parents have toiled all the night over the cradle in fear during the wakeful hours of their little ones, only to realize in the crisis how futile are human efforts in comparison with the application of Christian science treatment. Practitioners have labored through life night in order to bring out a healing, until there came the quick assurance that God is the only physician and power, the only cause, and that His creation is the only effect. Then leaving the patient entirely in this powerful protection of God, that is, casting the net on the right side, the practitioner found that the work was finished, as it was in the beginning with God. To know the right words at the right time is to be constantly under the injunction to let the Spirit speak which quiekeneth. Did not Jesus advise his disciples that Spirit would supply the needed words, when he said, "But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that, speak, but the Spirit, of your Father which speaketh in you"? Then let the Holy Ghost, be heard through God's word. Let there be no resistance to the outflow of the divine word, that the channels of consciousness may be opened wide to the golden tide of Christian healing. The compassionate touch of human kindness and gentle love, and the all-enduring spiritual power of Truth break the long night of toiling and discord and usher in an eternal day of concord.
Christian Science is needed in the sick room. The downhearted and downtrodden call for its uplifting, healing qualities. The spiritual glow of true metaphysics throws an effulgent, light upon human sorrows, and wipes out the old way with the new. Every example of overcoming error given by Christian Scientists is a step forward and upward and an encouragement to those who are real workers in righteousness. All those who are willing to obey God can learn to handle and heal error of every kind, including disease, in the way of His choosing. Mrs. Eddy states clearly on page 378 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Disease is not an intelligence to dispute the empire of Mind or to dethrone Mind and take the government into its own hands. Sickness is not a God-given, nor a self-constituted material power, which copes astutely with Mind and finally conquers it. God never endowed matter with power to disable Life or to chill harmony with a long and cold night of discord."
