Recognizing the inevitable correlation of Christian practice with preaching, Christ Jesus proved his doctrine of the omnipotence of good by destroying, and thus proving unreal, every phase of evil, such as sin, sorrow, and sickness.
A writer states that "Christian Science was born through lack of attention on the part of the medical profession to mental suggestion in the treatment of disease," thus by inference at least likening Christian Science treatment to mental suggestion.
In answer to the assertion by a local pastor in his sermon that Christian Scientists deny the existence of the material body, it may be said that Christian Science does not deny that the material body exists to human sense, but explains it as being a phenomenon of this human or material sense.
There are probably few scenes recorded in the Bible more dramatic in character and of greater metaphysical significance than Paul's recital of his conversion to Christianity, as he stood before the angry Jewish mob from whose violence he was delivered through his appeal to the Roman centurion.
In
explaining the methods through which error claims to work, a Christian Science practitioner once told how, some years before, when he was a prospector, he was one day out alone on the veldt in South Africa and came suddenly upon a troop of baboons.
One of the qualities of God mentioned in the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, found on page 17 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is grace.
