Article July 30, 1904 Issue

What Christian Science is Doing

SAMUEL GREENWOOD.

THE actual results of a theory when reduced to practice are all that sustain or destroy its claims. Opposition, persecution, ridicule, invective, weigh not the smallest degree against the righteousness of any cause. In the scales of Truth the balance is not adjusted to opinions or prejudices, however ancient or universally revered, otherwise the tide of human progress had ebbed ages ago. No religion, philosophy, or science, can evade the final judgment of works, by which alone its merit can be decided. Christian Science is no exception, and stands before the world to be judged, not only by what it teaches but by what it does.

The human need of help is piteous beyond language to express. The sufferings superimposed upon mortals because of their servitude to the flesh and their submission to error, exceed the utmost ingenuity of torture ever ascribed to a state of constant terror lest they stumble upon some pitfall of misfortune or disease. Is there no end in sight to all this? Are the agony and the heartache of the world never to cease? Through long ages, men have struggled for freedom and deliverance from pain and weakness and disease, while the highest wisdom and genius of the race have been spent upon the search; and yet failure has been the finish of their efforts. Is there to be no redemption from this hell of earthly torment, no brightening hope of escape from the wretchedness of sin? Must the future ever repeat the history of the past, and succeeding generations, through unnumbered centuries, tread the same pathway of suffering?

Religions of every shade of belief, and curative methods of every conceivable form, have been offered to the world; but the latter have neither diminished nor destroyed disease, nor has the former delivered men from the love of sin. Theories about heaven and hell, or the chances of a future pardon, have no power over the sinful appetites and passions of men; and material modes, fettered by fear and fostered by spiritual ignorance, are helpless to waken mortals from the nightmare of disease. The redemptive and healing religion of Jesus Christ is the one radiant exception among past failures to cope with the seeming power of evil; but alas for the peace of the world! poor suffering mortals, believing misery and death to be the unavoidable heritage of the race, have turned from the practice of his teachings as being too good to be true.

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