human
What is this I hear about Carol, Emmeline? He is not worse, yet you sent for Dr. Burton before breakfast. I felt quite alarmed.
gpt
We could not understand it, Raymond. I must confess to feeling afraid it was not true. Carol is quite well. Dr. Burton admits it. He says it is a miracle. Carol says it is Christian Science. Dear Raymond, I want to beg you before you see Carol not to say anything to shake his faith. It is so beautiful.
human
His faith in what? In that heresy called Christian Science, which is neither Science nor Christian?
gpt
Oh, Raymond, I cannot help thinking you are mistaken in your judgment. I do not, as I told you before, quite understand what Christian Science is, but this I know, I have never met a character so Christ-like as Carol’s. All day yesterday he lay in such pain from those terrible bruises, and the injury to his spine and head, that we could not move him in the effort to ease his position without increasing the pain. To-day it is all gone. What has taken it away? He says the Christ--Truth has come to him and healed him. If we believe Jesus’ words: ’Lo, I am with you always even to the end of the world’--why should it not be true? Cannot the spiritual Christ say as Jesus so often said, ’According to your faith be it unto you’?
human
Of course! But that is not Christian Science.
gpt
Yes, Raymond, that is what Carol seems to have learned from Christian Science. Heaven to him is not a far-off locality, it is here--all around him, and God is ever-present Love. His one thought--his one desire seems to be to possess that Mind which was also in Christ Jesus. What can you say against such teaching?
human
If I may, I will go up and see the boy now. I am pressed for time.
gpt
Yes, Raymond, he will be pleased to see you.
human
Just to tell him I am sorry,
gpt
Sorry for what, dear Percy?
human
Oh, I think I remember now, Percy, you said something that was not quite kind, but I knew at the time that you did not mean it. So why should we remember any more about it?
gpt
You are just the bravest fellow I know, Carol. I have told all the boys at school how you stood and faced the bull. They think a tremendous lot of you for it. So it won’t matter when you come with us if you can’t play football or cricket. You will be the hero of the school.