with contributions from S. M. Vernon, J. Edwin Odgers, Mark Guy Pe RSE
Not one of the twelve apostles would have left a trace in history if it had not been for the companionship of Christ, the training he gave them, his spirit that was in them.
No doubt every member of the Mother Church felt deeply gratified with the contents of the recent edition of the Manual, and silently recognizes the value of every new measure therein given.
We are taught and we believe as Christian Scientists that cleanliness is next to godliness, and a faith without works is dead, but we must insist that it is in the fullest sense as consistent to expect God to heal the sick without material remedies to-day as it was in the time of Jesus, who did not administer them, and that the great number constantly being healed by reliance upon God alone fully warrants our position.
In
our desire to emphasize our remarks we are sometimes tempted to state that Christian Scientists as a class do this or that, forgetting that except on well-known points it is presumption to speak for others.
