It
is safe to assume that whatever differences there may be in the states and stages of growth among Christian Scientists, they are united in their love for the Cause, in their desire for its prosperity, and in unswerving loyalty to its wise and beloved Leader.
When
Jesus came down into the valley of human experience, after that wonderful spiritual exaltation and illumination described by the apostles as his transfiguration, he found some of his disciples surrounded by a great multitude, in a tumult which was occasioned through the failure of the disciples to heal an epileptic boy, who had been brought to them by his father.
The fact is that too few persons have entered into that moral expectancy which gives the highest uplift to life and which is expressed by the apostle in the words: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Statistics show that in some localities more than one hundred, out of every thousand persons born, die in childhood, and this occurs among classes who do not believe in Christian Science and who have nothing whatever to do with it.
The writer in American Medicine, whose remarks on Christian Science are quoted in a recent issue of a New Orleans newspaper, gives himself unnecessary anguish when he assumes that his readers need to be warned against Christian Science.
