When I was a young student of law at the University of Copenhagen, I had a teacher who from time to time liked to point out that the finest quality of a lawyer was his ability to distinguish. What he meant was the ability to distinguish, for instance, between what is right or wrong, legal or illegal, relevant to the case at hand or irrelevant.
Now, whether that ability is the lawyer's finest quality or not, it's certainly of great importance to his work,
A couple of years later, when I began to study the teachings of Christian Science, I couldn't help noticing that according to those teachings the ability to distinguish between truth and error, good and evil, is of immense importance to all human beings, and that Christian Science in a wonderful way helps us to make the right distinctions in our prayers for ourselves and others and in our daily living.
