The clamor of the press over cases of patients that pass on while under the care of Scientist practitioners rests on the false premise that they either profess to or should wholly avert the phenomenon called death. "Error is a coward before Truth," but the Scientist who shrinks from taking a case that is unpromising in belief, through fear of this clamor, or who trembles in his conduct of a case once entered on, reverses the positions of Truth and error, and eden is his Master.
The effects of Christian Science can, as Science and Health tells us, only be, at this stage, palliative, because understanding is partial, and the Scientist ought, before entering on a case, to "count the cost," heed the rule laid down by our Teacher, "to practise what we know well"—to consider his own state of understanding. But where we enter, our thought must not carry mortal beliefs and fears to contradict the Truth we seek to plant, nor act under the law made by that supposed mind.
