Article September 27, 1930 Issue

I have read with interest your admirable editorial...

Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for Somerset, England,—Weston-Super-Mare

Weston Advertiser

I have read with interest your admirable editorial "Is Faith Healing Feasible?" in your last issue. In order that "faith healing," as commonly understood, may not be confused with Christian Science healing, I should appreciate space in your columns for the following comment.

As blind faith, so often tinged with emotionalism and excitement, sometimes plays a large part in what is called "faith healing," it may be necessary to explain that this does not enter into the practice of Christian Science, which is, as the name implies, scientific Christianity. Likewise, Christian Science has nothing in common with such vagaries of the so-called human mind as suggestive or hypnotic methods, rightly deprecated in your article. The faith employed by Christian Science is that which is based on the spiritual understanding of God and His immutable laws, which, like Christ, are "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 297: "Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine." It is the demonstrable understanding of, and exclusive reliance on God, divine Principle, as taught and practiced by Christ Jesus, that produces the healing works of Christian Science. In this connection your closing paragraph is of special interest: "Christianity has got to justify itself in the eyes of an advancing and truth-seeking race. In truth alone we shall find freedom. The churches will give us this truth when they give us a practical and demonstrable religion." Mrs. Eddy writes in the above-mentioned textbook of Christian Science (p. 224): "A higher and more practical Christianity, demonstrating justice and meeting the needs of mortals in sickness and in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for admission."

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