THACKERAY,
speaking of one of his most lovable and admirable characters, says, "No man could admit his own faults with more engaging candor than our friend.
In Christian Science healing human will is silenced and the despotic and harmful influence of one human mind over another is entirely eschewed, while the wholesome influence of truth, imparted to the sick in Jesus' way, soothes and uplifts the individual, making him better physically by uplifting him morally.
There are always three stages in the development of any and every system which has its base on Truth, or any section thereof: First, that of bitter opposition; second, parleying with its exponents because of the truth it contains; and third, acceptance of its fundamentals.
Christian Science recognizes squarely that to the suffering sense of the patient the disease with which he is afflicted is quite real and patent; but it denies its reality as a God-created entity or that it exists in consonance with the law of God, the law of which Christ Jesus said, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Christian Scientists have such faith and confidence in the promises of Christ Jesus that they prefer to rely upon them rather than material remedies; they prefer to trust God and the promises of the Master.
Mankind has heard enough of theory, dogma, and creed, and the thought of humanity is rapidly turning towards a more practical and satisfactory message of hope and salvation than its past experience has grasped.
Our critic is confusing the absolute with the relative, in exactly the same way in which Pilate, according to one of the greatest scholars and theologians the Church of England has ever known, did in his ever repeated question, "What is truth?
