That sounds with idiot laughter solely.
"Christian Science makes people happy" is an argument often advanced.
No doubt it does. But we are not discussing "Is Christian Science
Comforting?" but "Is it true?" Ignorance is bliss, it has been said;
but does that prove that ignorance should be cultivated and knowledge
suppressed?
I met a young woman just the day before her mother's funeral who behaved
as if she and the woman who had borne her, nursed her, carried her in
her arms, who had watched day and night over her cradle and risked her
life for her a hundred times, were total strangers. The young woman was
a Christian Scientist. Eliminate the sympathy which consciousness of a
struggling and suffering world inspires, and art, literature, poetry,
morality, and the humanities wither like a branch deprived of the
quickening sap.
Jesus was called the man of sorrows. Could he have been a Christian
Scientist?
"Jesus wept" is written in the Gospel of John. Sorrow and tears are
heresies to the perpetually smiling followers of Mrs. Eddy.
Let us have men and women who fear neither the thorn nor the tear, but
who use them as stepping-stones to greater strength. The way to meet
evil is to grapple with it soldier-like. Man is not an ostrich, and
burying one's head in the sand is a coward's policy.
To live is to act, and to act is to combat.
But darkness cannot be overcome with jargon. To conquer we need the
weapons of Prometheus--knowledge and courage!