Most cases offered as evidence of failure on the part of Christian Science are found upon investigation to be either fictitious or they are of those who turned to Christian Science as a last resort after all material means had failed.
Christianity has quite generally accepted the Scriptural teaching that healing the sick as well as the sinful should attend the Christian ministry, and there is an earnest searching to discover the gospel which heals the sick, and thus reinstate primitive Christian healing.
In practising under the rules given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Christian Scientists are healing thousands afflicted with all the ills that flesh is heir to, in accordance with the system instituted by Jesus and successfully practised by him during his earthly ministry.
Christian Scientists accept unreservedly the teaching of the Scriptures: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Sir
Francis Bacon, who flourished in the sixteenth century, was a mental giant but a moral pigmy, and "pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps," says Pope.
Truth
illumines mortal consciousness as light dispels darkness, radiating with its beams divine the darkened chambers of the human heart and permeating the musty corners with the sweet odors of frankincense and myrrh.
With
each new by-law that our wise Leader gives to the Field, there must well up in the heart of every loyal student a great sense of love and gratitude, as he joyfully exclaims with the psalmist, "The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes:.
Along
nearly every line of human research and investigation the first point to consider is the source of the information desired, and it is very generally acknowledged that the only feasible and consistent course to pursue is to go direct to the fountainhead of information.
