It is well known that persuasion has had virtually no part in the rapid spreading of Christian Science over the world. Its students have seen that mere urging of others to adopt it is neither desirable nor needful. One is not drawn to a science by such means, but by evidences of its soundness and value; and it is in this way that the ever-growing body of Christian Scientists has come to be. But if Christian Scientists do not urge others to become students of Christian Science, they are happy to represent to them—in words, so far as these may be useful, but more particularly in terms of life itself— what this Science has meant to them, and what they perceive it can mean to all.
The Scientist sees others hampered and dismayed by difficulties which this teaching, this scientific setting forth of the truth taught and proved by Christ Jesus, has enabled him to overcome. He sees them, often at great cost to themselves, searching for good where he has learned that it cannot be found, and at the same time missing immeasurable good which is within their reach. He sees them habitually weary when rest and refreshment are theirs for the taking, dull beside the very wells of inspiration, hopeless and faltering in the presence of infinite possibilities. It is not strange that, even as he earnestly strives for higher understanding himself, he is willing to publish what he has learned.
What is it, then, that Christian Science offers mankind? What is the practical meaning of this Science for the world?
