Article April 6, 1899 Issue

Talks with the People on Christian Science

Josiah Rusk

Hoopeston (Ill.) Herald

People will continue to ask the same questions about Christian Science, I suppose, until the universal thought has gained a clearer conception of its aims and uses. Perhaps the easiest way to know what it is, is to go to a Christian Science healer and be healed of some complaint that is troubling you. Then you will see that there is "something in it." You will find you are not only relieved of the old pain, or sickness, but you have gained a new outlook upon life. You find that you are not only well, but you will want to know what made you well. Then you will be in a position to understand what is said and written about Christian Science, as you did not seem to be before.

We will suppose you are a Christian, and have been taught to believe the Bible. Now you will find that you have been a little afraid to even ask what this new way is, fearing it might in some way interfere with what you believe as a Christian. And this hesitation springs from a right motive, and is to be commended. Your healer will tell you not to accept anything upon hearsay, but as the Scripture directs, to "Prove all things." You will not therefore be asked to believe anything that is not first demonstrated, or proved, to be Truth.

When you now read your Bible, and find that Jesus followers were taught and commanded to "Heal the sick," just as clearly as they were told to "Preach the Gospel," you will ask, "Why is this command of the Master disregarded?" And you will no longer be satisfied with the old answer that, "The healing in the time of Jesus was meant only to confirm his doctrine, and to prove his divinity," because you will fail to find anything in the Bible to warrant such a conclusion. When you look at the facts, you will find that wonderful works of healing were performed thousands of years before, and some three hundred years after the Christian era, and that there is nothing in Scripture to suggest that this power will ever be lost as long as there are those that believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Now Christian Science is the way, in this age, in which those who trust God's promises, are saved from sickness and suffering, and you, who claim to be a Christian, have the right to investigate, and the blessed privilege of being healed, by this way which belongs to the Christian world, but which it has so long been ignorant of.

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