GOD'S promise of deliverance from every affliction is fulfilled today as it was of old. If one is confronted with a sense of hopelessness because of an inherited deformity and feels that there is no hope for him, he can be comforted, for the Comforter—Christian Science—is at hand to bless and heal him.
Mankind has long been erroneously educated to believe that there exists a law of heredity which has power to fashion man after the imperfect pattern of so-called ancestors. Christ Jesus, however, taught the perfection of man as the son of God. He was not deceived by material laws claiming to govern man, but exposed their fraudulent nature by healing the sick and the sinning, raising the dead, and making whole the imperfectly formed.
As time went on, however, his divinely natural works, as well as those of his disciples, came to be regarded as miraculous and impossible of repetition. The practice of healing through the understanding of God's spiritual law of perfection, the only method by which real and permanent healing is ever accomplished, was thus lost sight' of for many centuries. In the year 1866, this law was again discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, who recognized that her revelation was the Comforter promised in the Gospel of John, and gave to her discovery the name of Christian Science.
