THE NEW BIRTH
THE healing of disease through spiritual power, although manifestly a good thing for the human race, has not generally been accepted without resistance. Manking has been educated along material lines. Even what is called spiritual education or religion has generally been so associated with materialism and so tainted with material views as to throw the preponderance of belief and confidence on the material side. Thus educated human beings distrust spiritual power, doubt if it can be made available, and either are prone to ascribe to some material or semi-material influence those “signs following” which Jesus advocated and illustrated, or to disbelieve them altogether.
Christian Science teaches how one can learn to place complete reliance upon spiritual truth, and because it does this it is revolutionary. It shows clearly that commonly accepted views tend to perpetuate fear, and that even the pride which often propmts the rejection of Christian Science is but a product of fear. It shows that the attmept to reconcile spiritual truth with material theories and experiences is illogical upon its face. Such attempts are always associated with fear, because they inculcate
