THE allegorical court trial in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (pp. 430-442) is replete with meaning.
Among other things, the allegory shows the baneful effects of self-condemnation. The defendant, "Mortal Man," is on trial for having "committed liver-complaint." The various witnesses having presented their damaging testimony, the man was sentenced to death without one word having been raised in his defense. Overcome by the gravity of his situation, he wilted under the onslaught of adverse testimony.
Then Christian Science as counsel for the defense, on an appeal to the Court of Spirit, won a complete reversal of the judgment rendered in the Court of Error, and the prisoner was freed. The attorney's analysis of the testimony presented in the lower court and his correct application of the law served to lift the claim of condemnation under which the prisoner suffered, and the Supreme Court of Spirit pronounced an exonerating judgment.
