It is noteworthy that the Christian religion is founded upon the superiority of the spiritual over the material and can only thrive when demonstrating this superiority.
It should be understood that Christian Science is not claimed by its Discoverer and Founder to be a discovery of anything absolutely new, but rather that it is a rediscovery of the proper interpretation and application of the eternal truths found in the Bible, as taught and practised by Jesus and his disciples, in destroying sickness and sin.
If my assertion that "the coming of good into consciousness accentuates the qualities of evil by comparison" were to be paraphrased so as to read, "the coming of intelligence into consciousness accentuates the qualities of ignorance by comparison," the fact that ignorance is merely negative, the absence or lack of intelligence, nothing, would not thereby be challenged.
What is described as "the policy of telling a deluded patient that he is really in the best of health," is about the biggest nonsense that could be repeated of Christian Science; it is about on a par with the statement that Christian Scientists tell their patients that they do not exist.
While
walking along a country road one day, I came to a small bridge stretching across a dark, swamplike place, where the water was scarcely visible on account of a thick green covering, over the surface of which insects of every description were briskly running.
