The following question asked by honest investigators, comes often to the ear of the Christian Scientist, "If Christian Science be demonstrable, and if, as you aver, it be the self-same religion practised by Jesus the Christ and by his disciples, why did they not leave to us precise and formulated rules of practice?" To which the Christian Scientist replies: Jesus' teaching was by object-lessons and by word of mouth, and was treasured up and afterwards given to the world by his loving disciples. He did not call upon the scribes to preserve them in archives, but they were allowed to take root and grow in the hearts of his hearers. Though he left no "definite rule" of healing by "letter." he plainly showed us by the "spirit that quickeneth." He disregarded rules of hygiene when he said. "Take no thought for your ...body." and corrected his disciples who essayed to heal without a sufficient amount of faith.
Who knows how much he may have taught the way of healing to Lazarus and to Mary and to Martha, as they lingered long together on those Eastern house-tops? and how much he imparted to the beloved ones who sat with him in those "upper chambers"?
It was not the time for the full revelation by letter: his promise was for "greater things" in the future. As yet they could not bear the things he had to tell. But John, who had leaned upon his bosom, and so had grown very near to him in thought, prophetically looked into "the fulness of time."
