Article April 18, 1901 Issue

From Old Mexico

Christian Scientist

To the Editor of The Mexican Herald.

Sir:—I have been interested in Christian Science study and practice only about three years, and do not pretend to know enough about it to rush into print with any explanations as to its operations. However, with but a limited experience I have found it to be the most soul-satisfying, helpful element that has ever possessed my consciousness. It has saved me from what was called mortal sickness; it has broken the chains of life-long habit and secret sin; and it is doing the same thing every day for thousands of men and women the wide world over. Its mission is to help people, not to hurt them, and even during its brief history of two years in Mexico, Christian Science has helped scores of persons who could get help nowhere else.

Therefore it pained me, as I am sure it would pain any one who is trying to live up to the standard of Jesus Christ, as insisted upon in Christian Science, to see, in the columns of The Mexican Herald, criticisms upon our religion and our mental therapeutics. Is it too much because we insist upon the full salvation made possible by our Master? He came to show men and women the way out of sin into holiness and the way out of sickness into health, at the same time. It was the undivided garment. Because people do not understand the theories of Christian Science should these be discarded? There are millions of people who do not understand what electricity is, yet it is an accomplished fact in the demonstrations of Edison and Tesla. People may not know what the world's axis or the equator is, but Galileo was merely a pioneer in that line and the world has to accept both in the appraisement of the world material. Why criticise Christian Science simply because we cannot understand it, when we have to accept thousands of other unexplainable things every day in our battle with life? The story is told of the old Quaker who reproved the atheist who was boasting that he did not believe in God, because he had never seen Him. "Thou nast never seen thine own brains, so I presume thou hast none."

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