Original sentence: But, instead of reducing all things to the material, she reduced all things to the spiritual.Christian Scientists believe that Christ Jesus was the Wayshower, a proof by example of the divine method of healing sin, sickness and death.Christian Scientists resist the use of both drugs and surgery.The Christian Science Church does not forbid the use of medicine by its members, nor does the church exert informal pressure on them to eschew it.They believe in following the example of Christ Jesus, bringing more clearly into thought the real or ideal man
Edited sentence: (S&H 476-7)".But, instead of reducing all things to matter as did many followers of Charles Darwin, she reduced all things to the spiritual.Christian Scientists believe that Christ Jesus was the Wayshower, an exemplar of this divine method of healing sin, sickness and death.Christian Scientists display equal resistance to the use of drugs as to surgery.In following the example of Christ Jesus, Christian Scientists argue mentally the case before them, bringing more clearly into thought the real or ideal man.In this perfect man the Savior saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick.Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals.The Christian Science Church does not forbid the use of medical means by its members, nor does it exert informal pressure on them to eschew material medicine.This is supported in Science and Health, "He met and mastered on the basis of Christian Science, the power of Mind over matter, all the claims of medicine, surgery, and hygiene (S&H 44)," and "When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, 'The kingdom of God is within you;' that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal