Critics should take into consideration the fact that Christian Scientists, in the majority of cases, speak from the standpoint of experience with both materia medica and Christian Science, and having found this Science more efficacious in the treatment of physical ills than the methods previously employed, naturally prefer it.
Christian Science emphatically and consistently maintains that because sin has no divine origin it should be accorded no rightful place nor irresistible power in the world: that it is an unlawful enormity which should cease to victimize mankind because it is not of God, the one and only creator.
The mere fact that healing is accomplished through the spiritual understanding of Christ's teachings, as demonstrated by Christian Scientists, does not in any degree lessen their claim to recognition as a Christian church, but rather does it constitute a valid and sufficient reason for this claim, if the Scripture is to be accepted as authority.
