It is often said by those who are just beginning to investigate Christian Science, and those who are too blind to see, that there is little or no difference between Christian Science and Orthodoxy. Looking deeply into this thought, we see, if this is true, that our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has not really given us anything new, simply changed the name of the old. Ask those who seek and strive to enter the strait and narrow way, according to the rules of our text-book, Science and Health, if they were enabled to understand, as they do now, with even a limited knowledge of the Truth, or were gaining anything of the real.
Were we not taught that sorrow, sin, and death were sent of God? The mortal senses have made a reign of discord, while God made everything that was made, and made it good, like himself. And have not many of us been accounted insane because we even dared, after so many years of servitude to these senses, to make the attempt to rise from their thraldom?
We know better than we wish we did, this false teaching. Let us now see what foundation we have from the Truth side to sustain our denials of these false claims. We find them not in God — they are limited; we see them begin and end; no two persons having exactly the same sense of them, how could we ever reach the one Mind by this road? What could Paul mean in Titus, 2: 7, by shewing ourselves a pattern of good works, if there were some evils actually existing, as is claimed, for he says in "all things."
