Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . ic. As Christianity came to a world under thespell of materialism, concerned with the shelland ignoring the vital spirit,—a society givenover to egoism, self-desire and sensuousallurements, so Christian Science has comeat a time when our society was fast comingunder the death-dealing spell of the material-ism of the market, the sordid, selfish, egoisticand mammon-worshiping influence whichends in spiritual death; and by reawakeningfaith in the hearts of the people,—a living AS A RELIGION 57 faith in a living God, by lifting the
Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . ic. As Christianity came to a world under thespell of materialism, concerned with the shelland ignoring the vital spirit,—a society givenover to egoism, self-desire and sensuousallurements, so Christian Science has comeat a time when our society was fast comingunder the death-dealing spell of the material-ism of the market, the sordid, selfish, egoisticand mammon-worshiping influence whichends in spiritual death; and by reawakeningfaith in the hearts of the people,—a living AS A RELIGION 57 faith in a living God, by lifting the thoughtfrom the transient, sordid, egoistic and ma-terialistic ideals that are threatening to en-slave the nation and centering mans thoughton the eternal moral verities, it is not onlytransforming the lives of thousands, but ismaking each one thus brought under thecompulsion of moral idealism a diffusive cen-ter radiating the light, the faith and the lovethat are life-sustaining elements of civiliza-tion. II CHKISTIAN SCIENCE A THEEAPEUTICAGENT CHAPTEE III. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND ORGANIC DISEASE jO ONE who has carefully studiedthe phenomenal spread of Chris-tian Science during the pasttwelve years, since the first churchwas dedicated, nothing is more significantthan the rapid shifting of ground on the partof physicians and conventional critics in re-gard to the curing of the sick. At first therewas general incredulity expressed and verypositive denials of the claims were made by alarge proportion of those who think alongconventional and scholastic lines. Later, when a grudging admission wasforced in regard to cures, owing to the largenumber of cases in which healing was claimedand the unanswerable character of the evi-dence, it was urged that the people curedwere for the most part ignorant, over-credu-lous or neurotic characters, long the victimsof imaginary diseases, but that no well-de-fined cures of persons really ill could be ad-duced, i 62 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Unhappily
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