THE student of mathematics who has so thoroughly mastered the facts of numerical law as to be able to apply them unhesitatingly and correctly to the problem at hand can command an almost immediate answer to the problem. He does not stop to question the truth of the rules which he is about to apply; for to him they are already accepted facts. Neither does he speculate upon the probability of a correct answer; for he knows that if he will but apply the proper rules in the correct manner, the answer will take care of itself.
Inasmuch as Christian Science demonstration is based upon an understanding of divine Principle, which assuredly is fixed and infallible, let us see if the result of its application to our so-called human problems should not be as sure and as immediate as in the case of mathematics.
In reply to a question, Mary Baker Eddy, whose own healing ministry was marked by many beautiful instances of the immediate destruction of diseases of every sort, writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 40): "In some instances the students of Christian Science equal the ancient prophets as healers. All true healing is governed by, and demonstrated on, the same Principle as theirs; namely, the action of the divine Spirit, through the power of Truth to destroy error, discord of whatever sort. The reason that the same results follow not in every case, is that the student does not in every case possess sufficiently the Christ-spirit and its power to cast out the disease."
