A Bill
was recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the purport and aim of which seemed to be the prohibition of the practice of healing by any other methods than those of medicine and surgery.
The brave man is the elder son of creation, who has stepped buoyantly into his inheritance, while the coward, who is the younger, waiteth patiently until he decease.
Railing at Christian Scientists because they are not doing the most difficult things of their profession at the start is on a par with punishing a child in its first term at school for not writing an essay on philosophy.
The plan of salvation outlined by Christ Jesus is very simple and includes the recognition of God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Ghost, or Comforter; all of these are accepted in their entirety by Christian Scientists, who recognize the fact that Christ is the Saviour of the world, and that only by following in his footsteps is there salvation from either sin, sickness, or death.
It is the practical effect of Christian Science made evident in health restored and disease overcome that has first led the great majority of the thousands who profess this teaching to adhere confidently to it in physical as well as spiritual need.