Christian Scientists to-day are gaining the same conviction that Elijah gained; they are learning that God is not to be found in storm and tempest, the relentless forces of a mysterious world; but that the "still, small voice" of Truth may still be heard, speaking to the human consciousness.
The central point on which all Christian Science turns is the absolute supremacy of God—not a supremacy which after a struggle with other powers leaves Him the victor, with perhaps what seem sorely depleted ranks, but a supremacy so absolute and complete that there is no place for any other opposing powers nor opportunity for the exercise of their apparent abilities for evil.
Perhaps one of the most popular fallacies regarding the method of Christian Science is the idea that it ignores sin and sickness and that if you only think you are well you will be so.
The gentleman declares, "To this superstition countless deaths and untold suffering are already to be charged, because it prevented the early resort to modern scientific treatment.
If all thinkers were to accept the dictum of Miss Reed, in her address on Christian Science before the Pan-Anglican Congress, that it was unnecessary to know anything of the person or works of the founder of a new movement before discussing it, the art of criticism would be in a parlous condition.
