Article March 9, 1899 ISSUE

Is Christian Healing

As Taught and Practised by Christian Scientists an "Unreasonable Fad"?

H. C. Baird

The "Democrat Doctor," in commenting on my article of February 2, says, "Mr. Baird assures us that he believes most firmly in Christian Healing, as taught by Christian Scientists. This is his right. But he is endowed with reason, and should therefore be able to tell us clearly why he holds to the above conclusion."

I am not surprised that the "Doctor" should be unable to understand how a person may be benefited by anything that is not tangible to the five senses. The bias of education in this material age is such that it is not an easy matter for a person engaged in the pressing cares of active business life to spend sufficient time in silent communion with God to become well enough acquainted with Him to believe He will help when the carnal mind binds upon him a conviction of so-called disease; hence, when afflicted, instead of going to God for help, some physician with whom he is better acquainted, is called upon. But in the light of God's word, is it the most reasonable way? Old Asa, King of Judah (2 Chronicles, 16 : 12, 13 ), concluded that the physicians could help him when suffering. The record reads that "he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers." If you will read the fourteenth verse you will notice that they gave him a first-class funeral.

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