Probably
there are few, if any, Christian Scientists who unite with a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, who do not approach such membership with great expectation of good to be gained therefrom.
"Fear
not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people,"—thus spake the angel to the shepherds in that far-away time when Jesus was born in the little town of Bethlehem.
If
one were to be told that there is a way whereby his entire existence may be made harmonious; whereby all evil may be eliminated from his experience so that only good may appear; that in place of sickness he may find health; instead of poverty he may have abundance; that happiness will take the place of sorrow; in fact, that no error of any sort can find a resting place in his career,—where is the person who would not loudly acclaim that he would immediately undertake to enter that path and walk in it to its perfect goal?
