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es the only scientific treatment of sick.

es the only scientific treatment of sick
ness.
In submitting to the test, we are
willing to have Christian Science judg-
ed by the highest standard that the
mind can formulate.
One hundred years ago Benjamin
Franklin wrote: "The rapid progress Of
true science now makes occasions my
regretting sometimes that I was born
so soon. 1t is impossible to imagine
the height to which may be carried in
thousand years the power Of mind
over matter. All diseases may by sure
means be either prevented or cured,
not excepting that of old age, and our
lives heightened at pleasure even be-
yond the antediluvian standard"
lquote this as one of many utteran-
ances by men of science prophetically
idicating the discovery of the Science
of healing which would infallibly cope
with disease and exterminate it.
The inexorable demand of science is
the demand that the Science Of heal
ing must heal. There is no other per-
feet standard; no other basis from
| which righteous Judgment can pro-
ceed.
The world has witnessed but one ex-
hibition that was in accord with this
exacting requirement of Science. Jesus
of Nazareth healed the multitudes of
all manner of diseases instantaneously
Not one single case battled him; there
was no instance of failure.
| There are people who have claimed
that the scriptural account off his heal
ing is spurious, and that he never did
it. Others claim that he went of into
India and studied occultism and mes
merized his patients, and some have
declared that it was his excessive bodi-
ly vitality that effected the cures, as
though the Redeemer of the world was
nothing but magnetic doctor. But
Christendom unites in declaring that
Jesus voiced the eternal truth to
mankind and all the centuries; that he
was the very mouthpiece of infinite In
telligence, and manifested divine
| Wisdom.
He knew more about God and man,
more about law and government, more
about the cause and cure of disease
than all other people that ever lived.
He said that he came to do the will
Of God and to seek and to save that
which was lost. In fulfllment of this
what did he do? He reformed or heal
ed the sinner and healed the sick man.
In thus healing the sick did Jesus,
who manifested the intinity of Wisdom,
choose the best way, the right way,
the lawful and therefore the scientific
way, or did he choose an inferior way?
He knew that drugs had been used for
two thousand years: the same drugs
which some people have thought God
devised for the purpose.
Could Jesus have done Gods will
had he overlooked or disregarded a
divine proposition and adopted means
that were positively opposite? Has
God two ways? One that is perfect
and effective, and poorer and antag
onistic way which manifests itself in
dismal failure?
Analysis of this subject necessarily
involves these questions, was Jesus wise
and therefore scientific? Was his work
scientific or lawless? Did he mani
fest natural law and Gods eternal or
der, or did he contravene all law and
present a mere spasm of supernatural
interference with the naturalness of
Being.
Christian Science answers all these
questions, and thereby overturns all
the guessing, all the preposterous
theories whose only tendency has been
to minimize the deep Significance OF
our Lords mission, and present it as a
mere spectacular show.
It shows that jesus work was based
on infinite Principles; knowledge OF
which enabled to manifest the right
way, and therefore the only scientific
way in which to heal. It includes
moreover, complete declaration of
the Principle, and an exposition of a
faultless rule whereby it may be de.
mOnstrated.
Christian Science is forcing these
questions upon all christian people;
can there possibly be more than one
science of anything? Can there be
more than zone Science of healing"?
Did Jesus understand and practice it
Was his original Mind Healing Scien
tific or unlawful? If Jesus healing
was lawful and Scientific, are methods
which are extreme opposites also scien-
tlfic, or are they necessarily made.
quate?
If Jesus presented the only right
way, is there any other right way?
Ii Jesus way vas in contravention
OF the law, how can it be way for us
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Gods law? If it is an impenetrable
mystery, how can it be of the slightest
availability to mankind, who are ex
pected to follow in that way?
Christian Science shows that Jesus
was natural, lawful, and law fulfilling;
that he was scientific and presented a
way of healing which can be clearly
understood and demonstrated with
scientific accuracy. Thousands OF
people, once diving, are alive and well
today in consequence of this Science
and the understanding thereof, made
available to any and every creature on
earth.
i Christian Science appears in an age
when men and women, ministers and
physicians, q revered judiciary and
philsnthropists Of every type are cal