Christian Science will heal us if we will take its applicable truths into our consciousness and allow them to replace permanently the false beliefs which alone are at the root of our difficulties. When our consciousness is thus brought under God's government, healing takes place in our experience. But an essential condition of continued progress is the abandonment of all sinful beliefs.
There is an Afro-Asian adage, "You can't cook an elephant in a teapot." The possibilities are not there. Christ Jesus said (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 241, 242), "It is 'easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,' than for sinful beliefs to enter the kingdom of heaven, eternal harmony."
If one appears to be embroiled in discord and disease or becalmed in some backwater of stagnation, he may well ask himself honestly whether he has been reaching out for healing, progress, or supply through Christian Science, while holding tenaciously at the same time to cherished false beliefs about another, about himself, or about God. Surely no one would seriously attempt to take a camel through the eye of a needle. Then why hope to achieve the equally unlikely task of taking a false belief into heaven, or the state of harmony, which one seeks?
