Article July 16, 1910 Issue

The letter in a recent issue referring to Christian Science...

Charles W. J. Tennant

Bath (Eng.) Citizen

The letter in a recent issue referring to Christian Science tends to create doubt respecting the truth of the words of Jesus. Why does it seem so hard for some Christians today to believe that Jesus meant what he said? Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 134): "Denial of the possibility of Christian healing robs Christianity of the very element which gave it divine force and its astonishing and unequaled success in the first century."

Does our critic not believe that Jesus and his disciples healed the sick and raised the dead; that St. Paul did the same, and that for over two hundred years after Jesus left this earth the early Christians had the "signs following" them that our Master said should follow "then that believe"? Let him read the translations of "The Antenicene Fathers," also Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;" and having done so, it will be surprising if he does not ask himself the question, "Why does Christianity not produce the same fruits today?" He will perhaps then understand why there is an ever-increasing body of people, known as Christian Scientists, who are striving to let that Mind be in them "which was also in Christ Jesus," and which alone enables them to emulate his works.

It was through spiritually understanding a passage in St. Matthew that Mrs. Eddy was immediately healed and enabled to rise from what the physicians said was her death-bed. Referring to this experience, she says, in Science and Health (p. 109): "For three years after my discovery, I sought the solution of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scriptures and read little else, kept aloof from society, and devoted time and energies to discovering a positive rule. ... I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration."

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