Article December 5, 1901 Issue

Lessons

BY ETTA HELENA CHASE.

"How can Christian Science help me when the doctors have failed?" "How does Christian Science cure the sick?" "I have read Science and Health, but I do not understand the book." Such were some of the remarks of a woman who was willing to try Christian Science treatment if she could know in a moment just how she would be helped.

The woman was educated and cultured, and these thoughts came to me: Suppose a pupil should say, "I am willing to study algebra if you will show me now how to solve this quadratic equation. I have looked over the algebra, but I do not understand it." Or, suppose the pupil said, "I will begin the study of Latin if you will show me how to translate this passage in Virgil." The teacher is not at fault if cannot comply with her pupil's request. If one is willing to begin at the beginning in the study of mathematics or of a language, ought not one to be ready to take the first steps in the study of Christian Science?

"And they sung as it were a new song before the throne: . . . and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth." Man must be redeemed before the new song can be learned. He must realize that he is healed, before he can know fully just how the victory was won.

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