Article November 15, 1900 Issue

Possibilities of Christian Science

Alfred Farlow

Nebraska State Journal

Editor of State Journal:—In a recent number of your excellent paper I find the following statement:—

"If Christian Science is all its votaries claim it to be, it should restore decayed teeth without requiring one to go to the dentist and have them plugged."

I am yielding to the temptation to write you a few lines on this subject. First, I want to say that I heartily indorse your statement. If Christian Science is true it is equal to the demonstration in question. Either God is all, is infinite, Omnipotence and Omnipresence, or He is nothing. What your statement implies concerning Christian Science is also true concerning any other science; the science of mathematics for example. Mathematics will solve the most difficult problems; otherwise there is nothing in it. But the rule of mathematics will not work out the problem until it is applied by some one. So, the system of Christian Science will not heal even the most simple malady until it is put into practice, and it is dependent on the demonstrator for its demonstration. The pupil in addition cannot, and is not expected to, solve the most difficult problems in arithmetic. The present understanding of the pupil in Christian Science may be insufficient to insure to him perfect immunity from all ills of the flesh, or infallible success in overcoming all possible evils for others, but this does not indicate any fault in the Priniciple or rules of the Science itself. To the master in mathematics there is no such thing as a hard problem. So, to our Master in Christian healing there were no hard problems; though his disciples sometimes failed, asking about the obstinate devil, "Why could not we cast him out?"

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