A Communication

Cortland (N. Y.) Standard

To the Editor of The Standard.

Sir:—My attention has just been called to a question in your issue of February 22, which was asked by F. W. Higgins, after listening to an address on Christian Science, recently delivered in your city. Inasmuch as the question and its answer are calculated to bring out the essential difference between Christian Science and various beliefs which are sometimes confounded with it, I beg leave to add some words to the excellent editorial reply which appeared in your paper.

The question was, in substance, whether any one using mental means for healing would lose the power to heal, if he were given a medical education. In this connection the phrase was used "with unbounded faith in his own powers." This phrase cannot be applied to Christian Scientists, for they know that they themselves do not heal, but that the healing comes from the realization of God's omnipotence over all evil, whether appearing as sin or sickness.

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