s" explains that Jesus had no supernatural powers, and that
all He did was done according to natural law. Consequently everybody,
when once brought into harmony with spiritual truth, can accomplish
what He accomplished.

Some of Mrs. Eddy's statements have an undeniable practical value. For
instance, she attacks "fear" as one of the chief causes of human
misery, and declares that it is wrong to fear draughts of air, or wet
feet, or the eating and drinking of certain substances--and wrong,
above all, to fear microbes.

But exaggeration is always harmful. The total suppression of fear
would mean the suppression of often necessary and desirable
precautions. In order to succeed, however, a religion has need of the
absolute, for conditional truths are not likely to impress the public;
and the founder of Christian Science was well aware of this.

Health, according to the Scientists, is truth. In order to enjoy
existence, we must live in the truth and avoid sin, and ultimately
death itself will disappear, being entirely superfluous. Jesus said
that whoso believed on Him should never see death, and He would not
have said this if death were necessary for salvation. Therefore
believers are taught that humanity will in time conquer sickness and
death, and that this blessed consummation will be reached when human
beings attain to the heights of the Christian Science "gospel," and are
guided by it in all the thoughts and actions of their everyday life.
Other equally enchanting prospects are conjured up, like mirages in the
desert, before the dazzled eyes of Mrs. Eddy's followers. Making use
of the ancient conception of angels, she teaches that such beings are
always close at hand, for angels are "God's thoughts passing to man;
spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect." "These angels of His
presence . . . abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind."

Thus Christian Science is seen to be a religion of health, longevity
and happiness, the fruits of spiritual action; a religion which denies
both the theoretical and practical existence of matter.

There are, however, occasions when the invocations of "science" prove
powerless to deal with rebellious matter. But this does not embarrass
Mrs. Eddy. She considers that her doctrine is in advance of the age,
and that men themselves must progress in order to rise to its level.
Their spirits will then become pure and perfect, and matter will have
no more power over them. Man wil