The statements, "There is not a single new idea in Christian Science" and "The truth it contains has ever been practised by the Church," need qualifications.
If "B" advances no further in the Christian alphabet than "C," he will discover that baptism and holy communion are not so much of water and of bread as of the putting off of the old man and putting on of the new and doing the will of the Father.
A local clergyman tells us that "we are living in a time when on the part of the Church there is a decided disposition to recover the power and gift of healing.
To that person whose knowledge and experience in therapeutics have been entirely along material lines, it is probably hard to appreciate the efficacy of Christian Science treatment, which departs entirely from the realm of material medicine.
It
is sometimes said that Christian Science came as a protest against certain failures of the churches and materia medica, and that like all protests it goes too far.
