The Rev. Dr. A.J.  Gordon, a Boston Baptist clergyman, said in a sermon:  “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and it is doing it to-day; and as the faith of the Church increases, and Christians more and more learn their duty to believe all things written in the Scriptures, will such manifestations of God’s power increase among us.”  Such sentiments are wholesome avowals of Christian Science.  God is not unable or unwilling to heal, and mortals are not compelled to have other gods before Him, and employ material forms to meet a mental want.  The divine Spirit supplies all human needs.  Jesus said to the sick, “Thy sins are forgiven thee; rise up and walk!” God’s pardon is the destruction of all “the ills that flesh is heir to.”

All power belongs to God; and it is not in all the vain power of dogma and philosophy to dispossess the divine Mind of healing power, or to cast out error with error, even in the name and for the sake of Christ, and so heal the sick.  While Science is engulfing error in bottomless oblivion, the material senses would enthrone error as omnipotent and omnipresent, with power to determine the fact and fate to being.  It is said that the devil is the ape of God.  The lie of evil holds its own by declaring itself both true and good.  The path of Christian Science is beset with false claimants, aping its virtues, but cleaving to their own vices.  Denial of the authorship of “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” would make a lie the author of Truth, and so make Truth itself a lie.

A distinguished clergyman came to be healed.  He said:  “I am suffering from nervous prostration, and have to eat beefsteak and drink strong coffee to support me through a sermon.”  Here a skeptic might well ask if the atonement had lost its efficacy for him, and if Christ’s power to heal was not equal to the power of daily meat and drink.  The power of Truth is not contingent on matter.  Our Master said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”  Truth rebukes error; and whether stall-fed or famishing, theology needs Truth to stimulate and sustain a good sermon.

A lady said:  “Only He who knows all things can estimate the good your books are doing.”

A distinguished Doctor of Divinity said:  “Your book leavens my sermons.”

The following extract from a letter is a specimen of those received daily:  “Your book Science and Health is healing the sick, binding up the broken-hearted, preaching deliverance to the captive, convicting the infidel, alarming the hypocrite, and quickening the Christian.”

Christian Science Mind-healing is dishonored by those who take it up from mercenary motives, for wealth and fame, or think to build a baseless fabric of their own on another’s foundation.  They cannot put the “new wine into old bottles;” they can never engraft Truth into error.  Such students come to my College to learn a system which they go away to disgrace.  Stealing or garbling my statements of Mind-science will never prevent or reconstruct the wrecks of “isms” and help humanity.