Article September 21, 1899 Issue

Who Can Tell How Christian Science Heals?

J. M.

Grand Rapids Herald

How often we see it stated in sermons against Christian Science, and in articles criticising its ways and methods, that the healing in Christian Science is done through hypnotic suggestion.

How does Christian Science heal? Who can answer this question? Evidently he only who understands its healing methods in some degree; and who understands it except the one who can, to some extent, heal the sick according to its teachings? Do any of these critics pretend to heal according to Christian Science? No, not one of them. Then can any of them tell how it heals? They may deny that it heals, but the cases of healing are so numerous and well attested that few critics at this time deny the works. Denying its healing and telling how it is done, are quite different things. The difference is the same as denying the science of mathematics, and explaining the principle by which its problems are solved. To deny requires no understanding, in fact it demands ignorance, while to correctly explain, understanding is indispensable.

How novel to the mathematician would seem the explanation of how a problem is solved, by one who cannot solve it; yet this is not so wide of the mark as is the explanation given of the method of Christian Science healing by those who cannot thus heal.

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