A Friend said, "When first I came in contact with Christian Scientists I thought them very unsympathetic. They never asked about one's health, and when any one complained of pain or sorrow, they always tried to cheer him instead of sympathizing with him, and I am not yet quite sure that I like it."
Such remarks, often addressed to Christian Scientists by inquirers into Science, disclose a thought that needs careful handling. The time has passed when the tyro in Christian Science can feel justified in answering tales of suffering and grief with the assertion, "There is no such thing as pain, and there is nothing in the world to grieve about." Such speeches make one feel that love is indeed a missing quantity, rather than ever-present.
Years of faithful teaching and devoted example from our beloved Leader have brought the student of Christian Science through the stony wilderness of intellectual depreciation into the Promised Land of Love, and the complaint that Scientists are lacking in love and sympathy, thought still heard from persons taking their first steps in Science, is usually met in a manner that satisfies the craving for an intelligent understanding of the inmost needs of the affections.
