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ONE may sometimes profitably compare his present with his past experience, to note the progress made out of wrong conditions, but to compare one's own experience with another's is seldom if ever wise or profitable. Such comparison is apt to lead us into the deception of self-righteousness that we are doing so much better than our brother, or into the slough of discouragement because our brother is apparently doing so much better than we.
FREQUENTLY the beginner experiences difficulty in grasping the rudiments of a science or art he may essay to study or master, and as often he may pass hasty judgment upon both the subject and its adepts. He is apt to conclude that because he does not at once acquire proficiency, therefore the subject is either for the chosen few who are especially gifted in that direction, or that he is unusually dense.
In order to learn, we must attend; in order to profit by what we have learnt, we must think—that is, reflect. He only thinks who reflects.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord. —Isaiah.
A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of The Mother Church, by William P. McKenzie, Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship; at Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.
To the Editor of the Herald. In your issue of September 2, while commenting upon the communication of "Uncle Toby," who maintained that honest men and women are above temptation,—and I fully concur with him,—you quote "Lead us not into temptation" as appropriate to the subject.
SOME who read this may have just begun the study of Christian Science. A few weeks or months ago they knew of it only by name.
THE rise and development within the past century of the "scientific spirit," so-called, represent a tendency the importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate. While the immediate results of this intellectual impetus have been in many respects unsatisfactory, inasmuch as they have appeared, to a majority of students, to warrant, and frequently compel, conclusions which in the light of a more thorough resume of the situation are found to be deduced from unsound premises, nevertheless the pursuit of methods calculated to insure careful, conscientious observation, and accurate tabulation and systematization of the data thereby obtained, has been in the highest degree conducive to a dispelling of the shadows of ignorance and superstition and a preparation of the soil of human consciousness for the reception of clearer views of the truth.
The beginner in Christian Science occasionally finds his past-honored beliefs rising up to rebuke him for having departed from scholastic theology's well-beaten tracks. He should remember, however, that in Christian Science he is being healed by that holy, uplifting faith which is the fulfilment of all that the great theological teachers have hoped and prayed for.