The questioning of all accepted values and the loosening of family and community ties have created an audience of people, often immature and lonely, desperate for certainty and for an allegiance on almost any terms.
Innumerable religious and quasi-religious groups have sprung up to meet these needs ... But their undue dependence on self-proclaimed wise men leaves them vulnerable to charlatanry and to fanaticism which may pass out of the control of those who evoked it.
There is no need for our morale to sag, or for us to try some other treatment, if Christian Science treatment of a specific problem should look fruitless.
