The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, is the friend of sinners. Rather than being a book of the accusing finger, it is one of outstretched hands. So the honest struggler for moral freedom who picks it up won't find it casting stones at him. On the contrary, he'll gradually feel the comfort of realizing that the refusals to compromise in the book, its sharp rebukes, its penetrating condemnations, are aimed at sin, not at the sinner; at the addiction, not the addict; at suffering rather than the sufferer; at infidelity rather than at the unfaithful one.
This book doesn't commiserate with moral struggles in a manner that staples sin and mankind together. On the contrary, it is full of compassion, showing humanity's God-given right of freedom from plaguing appetite in any form. So it unfastens sin from the individual. Here's genuine spiritual care: not consolation under accepted condemnation, but the higher comfort that rebukes and destroys the causes of the condemnation.
And there's deep compassion in this book for those whose attraction toward others with the same moral weakness puts them together into a huddle of meager immoral comfort. The book breaks up such huddles but does not leave the indulgent participants lonelier and more desolate than before. In dealing with victims of social vices Science and Health is not merely deprivative, it is deeply compensatory.
