Christian Science is a radical religion, because it is Science. Its contribution to humanity's progress out of ignorance into understanding, out of limitation into freedom, out of bondage into dominion, is to be found not in the points of agreement with other religions and other sciences but in the points of disagreement.
It is the aim of Christian Science to present to humanity the truth which Christ Jesus said would make us free. It is the desire of every heart inspired with the truth of this Science to be a true friend to every individual on earth, offering to the theologian, the natural scientist, the atheist, the agnostic, the eclectic, the good man who does not know what he believes, truths that will comfort him, uplift him, appeal to him as right, and lead him to the demonstration of divine Truth. But it is a mistake to believe that he will be awakened to these truths by our telling him he does not really have to give up his old beliefs to accept Science.
Testimony after testimony given by those who have come into Christian Science after becoming thoroughly grounded in other doctrines or theories tell us that the testifier has found Christian Science by becoming dissatisfied with his view of life and the universe. This dissatisfaction has caused him to search elsewhere for Truth; and when he has found that Christian Science offers something radically different, he has reached for it in hunger and found it satisfying.
