The error which causes sickness is always Truth's opposite, a lie; hence it is the understanding of the truth concerning God, and man in his relations to God, which heals.
A reprint from the London Times in one of your late issues, entitled, "Science and Religion," contains some exceedingly surprising statements with reference to these two terms.
The theory elaborated in a recent issue of the Examiner to explain how Christian Science cures disease was quite ingenious, but to attribute the cures to "cheerfulness" alone is very much like saying that one would be healed if he took a certain kind of medicine, but not showing him where he could get the medicine.
Among
the very few errors editorially expressed during the recent gathering of Christian Scientists in Boston was one which attracted my special attention.
From
the initial fact of creation, as chronicled in the divinely simple statement, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," to the consummation of all revelation, "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.
It
happened that I met one Sabbath day after the morning service a young man whom I did not recognize at first, though I was attracted to him in a strange way when I grasped his proffered hand.
I pray you with all earnestness to prove, and know within your hearts, that all things lovely and righteous are possible for those who believe in their possibility, and who determine that for their part they will make every day's work contribute to them.
