A visitor
to a silk farm had been looking at the cocoons of the silkworm, and in a certain place saw some from which, all but one, had come out beautiful butterflies.
Christian Scientists are following the Master in the spirit as well as the letter of his teachings and endeavoring to practise his precepts and religion, pure and undefiled, and there is raised against them the hand of condemnation and reproach, merely because they are unwilling to admit that the power of God is limited, or that faith must be fettered by human opinions and theological dogmas.
That Christian Science and apostolic methods of healing are identical in Principle and operation is evident to any one who has the slightest understanding of the subject.
A student of Christianity, as well as a student of mathematics, must serve an apprenticeship — if we may be permitted to use that term; he must begin as a child in his understanding of truth, and must grow "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ," by continued application.
The oft-repeated attempts to substitute ritual and dogma for the simple gospel teaching have resulted in countless sects, all claiming to be followers of the Master; united in aim, but differing in practice, sometimes with the bitterest intensity of feeling and an utter lack of charity one to the other.
Pain, suffering, and sin are indeed very real to the human sense of things, even as darkness seems real, and they are to be dealt with in a Christianly scientific manner and overcome in the way Jesus pointed out, through the power of God, Spirit.
The practice of Christian Science is based on the authority of the Scriptural statement that God is the healer of all the ills that flesh is heir to, both physical and moral.
