In the divine therapeutics of Christian Science, faith in the Christ principle is accounted more efficacious in the healing of diseases, from the simplest to the most complex manifestations, than any prescription known to Pharmacology.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the belief in the coining or actual possession of the blessed good desired.
Faith, looking with confidence for the good needed or sought, makes towards righteousness. " I know that Faith and Right have the universe on their side;" and the universe, thank Jehovah, makes steadily for holiness. Swedenborg has defined holiness as a "right state of the intellect or thoughts," and thus explains the tacit conviction of the human mind that faith is, so far as exercised, an evidence of so much holiness or rectitude in its possessor.
