That which most intimately concerns mankind today is "Healing." On every hand, go where we may, there are the halt, the maimed, the blind, the sick and suffering, directly or indirectly the effects of sin. The poet said, "By sin came death and all our woes"; and the great demand is for "Christian Healing." Materia Medica, dealing only with effect instead of cause, every day is found less and less adequate to give relief, and mesmerism or the action of mind over mind, is found to produce still worse conditions.
Therefore, that which will remove the cause, which is sin, viz., evil or wrong thinking and acting, is found in Christian Science and in nothing else, for there is nothing else which unfolds to us the Science or "Truth of Being.'' Just so long as sin remains, just so long will its effects appear in sickness and suffering, "For as he (a man) thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Prov. 3: 7). It is Christian Science which awakens us to that which is unseen to the material senses, even the spiritual and eternal facts of existence, thereby removing error from thought; then the body gives expression to whatever governs it.
Truth casts out error to-day in proportion as it is understood just as surely as it did when the humble Nazarene trod the hills of Galilee. Thousands are now bearing testimony to this healing power all over our land. Scarcely a town or hamlet in this country where there are not meetings being held each Friday evening at which are related experiences of healing, not only deliverance from sickness and suffering, but from evil habits, such as profanity, the tobacco habit, the liquor habit, licentiousness and evil thought in all its myriad forms. Many are saying, "How glad I am, for I know now that what is taught in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is the Truth, and I have no longer to halt between opinions of men, and am no longer 'tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine.' for here is the proof. It is demonstrated to me that this is truly 'the second coming of Christ,' for verily the signs do appear."
