Christian Science is a revival of primitive Christianity, and its healings are today as in Jesus' day the direct result of the impartation to erring human minds of the wholesome, uplifting, vivifying influence of divine Truth and Love, which heals physically by uplifting spiritually.
Starting from the premises, disclosed by Scripture and conceded by Christians generally, that God is good, that He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, that He is Life and Truth and Love, Christian Science establishes its position and proves its teaching by the infallible process of deduction.
While
dwelling upon the innumerable blessings and wonders of Christian Science, the writer has frequently been reminded of the words, "I do set my bow in the cloud,"—a "token" of that covenant which was to be "for perpetual generations.
It
is curious to notice that in the Greek New Testament there are no less than sixteen different Greek verbs which are translated in our Authorized Version by the single word "declare.
The
very remarkable but quiet fidelity and healing work of Philip the evangelist have been somewhat overshadowed by the more brilliant records of the earlier disciples, and one incident of his career was so in advance of the times that the materialism of the age has ignored or misunderstood it.