The Scriptures declare that God's ways are higher than man's; then His method of healing also must he higher, God's medicine is Mind. Spirits, drugs, material means are man made. If God, Spirit, heals, drugs, matter, Spirit's opposite, cannot heal. The carnal man wants to be healed, just where he is in the sinful indulgence of the senses, hence he seeks for healing through a supposed power emanating from erring human knowledge.
The following (which will illustrate) was related to the writer. One man said to another (both of whom were addicted to the drink habit, and from which they had suffered.) " What you want is to get this mind-cure treatment, that'll fix you all right. I've been treated that way, and now I can drink as much as I please, and not be laid up." Such a mental influence is neither Christian nor morally human.
It is the taking of "seven other wicked spirits," and the result must be a terrible experience later on, for the one who has been thus deceived. Let not those who come to Christian Science for healing be discouraged, if while under treatment their physical sense of suffering is temporarily aggravated, and at the same time some sense of their own sinfulness is brought more vividly to their consciousness than ever before. It is the province of Christian Science to make every whit whole. " Mind over mind " method tries to please man in his sin, and in some instances it serves the desire of those who say " if I can only get rid of this suffering I don't care what it is that does it." "No man is healed in sin, or by it any more than he is morally saved in or by sin. Lust, hatred, and dishonesty make man sick; and neither medicine nor mind can help him unless they make him better morally, and so deliver him from the destroyers."
S.& H., p. 322 God does not come down to man's condition of sorrow and mingle with it, but He lifts men away from it, and to Himself; neither does He forgive man's sin by relieving him from the suffering that is the legitimate result of sin, and leave him to repeat the offence. Christian Science is God's method of healing. " As the Heavens are higher than the earth " so is Christian Science healing higher than all other methods. It strikes directly at sin, the cause of sickness, and will not let go until the love for it in the human consciousness is destroyed; then the streams of mortal woe that flowed from it disappear, and the prayer in Charles Wesley's lines
