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.
There
sometimes comes a time in the lives of men when every material support fails; when they are brought face to face with the fact that either God must save them or they go out into a night without the guidance of a ray of light,—into a long, cold night of discord,—helpless and alone.
At
a recent Wednesday evening experience meeting I was deeply impressed with testimonies given, which told of healing received through the study of the Lesson-Sermon, and the value of these Lessons was again borne in upon my thought.
As
Christian Scientists we understand somewhat of the Science of being, through and by which God governs man and the universe, and know that to the divine Mind, operating through His own spiritual law, all things are possible.