Lord, who hath believed our report? John xii. 38.
The writer of the Fourth Gospel quotes from Isaiah the Prophet, to show that in Jesus' day, as in the elder era, Truth was not always received by those to whom God ordained its proclamation.
The words apply to the cause of Christian Science today. Who hath believed the report of the teachers of this old yet new Science, this new yet old form of healing? Up and down the land are circulated stories about cures without medicine, without hands. Who believes them? The multitude? No! The Scribes and Pharisees of the day, — that is, the Doctors of Divinity and Law, the church-leaders? No! Anybody? Yes, a great many bodies, — or rather, a great many minds, who find health through this curative method.
Who hath believed? Knots of women here and there, — enough in some places to form a church, — who have first had the curiosity to inquire into the new revelation; who, second, have been healed; who, third, have had the courage of their convictions, and proclaimed their faith in the parlor, on the housetop, in the street, in the papers, in the prayer-meeting.