Since it is admitted that Christian Science does heal and since this healing is accomplished on the basis of the unreality of disease, is it not reasonable to expect that sin may be overcome on the same basis?
If it is true, as stated by a critic, that most Christian Scientists "were cured of diseases they did not have, except in imagination," the author of that statement becomes at once involved in a question of veracity with some of the best physicians in the world.
One who has been healed by the evangelical teachings and ministrations of Christian Science desires to say that it has been a great satisfaction to many thinking, conscientious people, by reason of its having opened the spiritual meaning of the Bible, which before had become practically a sealed book, with its divine message to man hidden under clouds of material interpretation.
The
question is often asked by religious workers, Why is it that people who are faithful church members, and who live as nearly right as they know how, are afflicted with sickness, or financial adversity, or both?
Some
years ago, when personal preaching was discontinued in the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the present form of service instituted, it was predicted by some who failed to appreciate the wisdom and foresight of our revered Leader in inaugurating so radical a change, that it would not meet with general favor; but the very opposite of this prediction has proven true.
