ABSTRACT
Religion promises its disciples certain boons. These promises are common to all forms of religion. Religion promises: answers to prayer; the doing of wonders; freedom from ills; the forgiveness of sins; and, finally, life after this life. Religion, in some of its phases and periods, has promised freedom from various ills to its followers. Of the significance of these offers there can be no question. They have been the stay and the comfort of untold millions, they are potent to-day, and there can be no doubt that they will be so as long as man exists upon this earth. This chapter describes what science has to say to these promises. The prophets of religion have heard these things in the secret places of the heart, and have proclaimed them to the peoples as the word of the Lord.
