When
Moses was led to send a series of plagues on Egypt in order to force Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave the land of bondage, the next to the final plague was darkness.
The
spectacle of the brilliantly talented individual struggling vainly for happiness through artificially stimulated living, which often ends in tragedy, may seem to justify gossipy criticism.
To
many individuals it may seem that the Christian Scientist takes an extreme position when he states, "there is no disease," right in the face of the material evidence of disease.
While
medical physicians often admit that thought plays a part in the sickness of a patient, they do not give up their belief in a material basis of his bodily disturbance.