There are hundreds of identifiably different religious denominations in the United States alone—certainly many many more worldwide—each voicing its own particular message to humanity. What is it in the human heart that all these denominations seek to address?
The normal individual wants and needs to love and be loved, to be well and active—whether he listens to any religious voice or rejects them all. He is interested in honesty and wouldn't object if he saw more of it in society. He would like to be more certain of the fundamental good his heart yearns for. Christian Science claims to speak to that yearning, but so do most other religious voices— not to mention psychology, medicine, humanism, and political ideologies. To the typical human mind, the voice of Christian Science may be but one among many others.
Why should anyone listen—listen to Christian Science, that is? What is it that will set Christian Science apart, not just in the eyes of its adherents but in the eyes of the world? What will distinguish it from all other religious denominations, human-thought systems, and material medicine?
