Article September 13, 1900 Issue

A Word in Favor of Christian Science

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THE Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, just elected President of Brown University, wrote an article (so it is stated) upon Christian Science, which was published in the Examiner, a Baptist newspaper issued in New York City, March 31, 1898, which is said to contain these words: "This new doctrine, if it be new, must have some truth in it because of its points. Jesus gave his disciples power to heal, and that power has never been revoked. It will not do for theologin or historian quietly to assume that Jesus meant such power to fade with lapse of years or to vanish at the end of the third century. Men will believe either that miracles are continuous throughout the history of Christianity, or that they never occurred in the Christian Church. No middle ground is logically or theologically possible. It is absolutely certain that hundreds of men and women in this country have received in the healing of their diseases a demonstration that there is a fundamental truth in Christian Science. Beholding the men who are healed we must beware how we declare ourselves against it. Even though many have died while hoping to be healed, even though many have forsaken the faith they once held, a marvelous number of cures are being daily performed. It is easy to pronounce this Satan's work; but Satan's work is to bind men, not to loose them."

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