It is no hyperbole, but the literal truth, to say that there are multitudes of people happy and well today who, but for Christian Science, would be either in their graves or hopelessly invalided.
While
trying to realize the truth about conditions which the world calls "hopeless," this text from Isaiah came into mind: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
The
problem of supply is one which has to be met by each of us in some of its various forms and phases, and its correct solution proves the possibility of solving all other problems.
Christian Science
is proclaiming anew to the world the truth that if it would ever know freedom from disease and bondage, from weight and woe, it must obey the command of Scripture, "Be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
There
will be no objection upon the part of any exponent of modern ethics to the proposition that optimism is better than pessimism, that it is a power for good and leads to improved conditions; and all shades of Christian thought today will endorse and sustain the desirability of up-looking instead of down-looking.
It
is said that Goethe once remarked that it was easier to rebuke error than to speak truth, and so we often find the young student of Christian Science, in his first enthusiastic attempts to promote the welfare of his fellows, offering unsolicited counsel or even rebukes with a mistaken sense of doing good.
