Article July 13, 1899 Issue

The Present Need

More Christian Scientists are not so much needed at present as better ones. There is danger of forgetting that progressively higher demonstration is the only way to help establish true Christianity.

It is comparatively easy to win converts to almost anything, but the numerical strength of its adherents is no proof of the truth of a doctrine. If numbers could prove anything, the Mahometans might properly challenge Christians to a comparison of evidence.

Christian Science is pre-eminently Science. It rests upon demonstration and nothing else can sustain its infinite claims. It makes the bold declaration that all the accumulated lore of materia medica is worthless compared with the healing power of divine Love, as taught by Jesus, and that God is able to do all things. More than a million cases of healing constitute the evidence that Christian Science does heal the sick, and this evidence is rapidly accumulating. As the workers draw closer to God and deny self, the healing will be done as promptly as it was by the Master, and this is the right way to make converts.

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