INTRODUCTORY 



convince man of his Divine origin and of his 

 potential inheritance, but alas ! the world and the 

 flesh obscure his eyes, and he wanders on, aimless 

 and fruitless, in the murk and darkness of faithless 

 materialism. 



Christ, in answer to the Pharisees, said those 

 memorable words of spiritual insight : " The 

 kingdom of God cometh not with observation; 

 neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for, 

 lo, the kingdom of God is within you." It is the 

 kingdom of God within us, this spiritual force 

 that is the sole motive-power of life and move- 

 ment in the whole universe which is at once 

 electrical, chemical, and biological, that we should 

 aim to harness to our car of healing. If we could 

 only convince men and women of this Divine 

 possession and show them that they, all of them, 

 are a part of the Divine scheme and partners with 

 Christ and with one another, then the reign of 

 faith and love would sweep away our doubts, our 

 wars, our fears then the thousand petty worries 

 and illusions of life as it is now, would vanish 

 as a dream ; then the therapeutic art would have 

 the spiritual collaboration of the sufferer in place 

 of the doubting, halting opposition of a Thomas. 

 Already we see this spirit at work in psycho- 

 therapy, in Christian Science, often foolishly 



