It is becoming more evident to many people that physical disease and other human difficulties are not always what they appear to be on the surface. Disease, for instance, from the medical viewpoint, has a name, conforms to certain symptoms, and tends to follow a materially predicted course. Yet there are many well-authenticated testimonies of healing through Christian Science which prove that the spiritual state of the patient determines his well-being or the lack of it. This is the case not only in the physical condition of the body but also in the condition of human affairs.
It is encouraging to see the increasing interest in the influence that the spiritual nature of an individual has on his experience. As this is more thoroughly explored, one's approach to solving human difficulties changes. More attention is given to the spiritually mental state than to the physical. Disease, though classified by name, is found out to be nothing more than a condition of human mentality.
Mrs. Eddy urges us in Science and Health: "Observe mind instead of body, lest aught unfit for development enter thought. Think less of material conditions and more of spiritual."Science and Health, p. 419.
