Article August 14, 1902 Issue

Reflections of a Neophyte in Christian Science

BY GEORGE A. BAKER

Why people sneer and deride a science old as Creation because it appears under a new title as a re-discovery, is an unexplainable mystery to me, unless viewed in the light that it seemingly demands of its followers too high a standard of spirituality. Human sense would gladly welcome the re-discovery, of the lost art of tempering copper, yet refuses to receive a scientific religious method of banishing pain and sickness from every household.

I asked a physician of the old school, a practitioner of twenty years or more, a few days ago, if he ever had a recovery under his care of which he could honestly say it was his prescription that had caused the healing. In a very frank way, he replied, "No, sir; I give the same medicine to different persons exhibiting the same symptoms; some get well, others die. The mystery of cure is as much a mystery as ever."

The reading of Science and Health performs its natural though seemingly marvelous cures along the same lines that a thorough study of any science enables the student to demonstrate the principles taught therein. The law student demonstrates the principles of law in his conduct of cases, the minister demonstrates his ideas of scholastic religious science in his healing of sin, the mariner demonstrates his study of navigation by taking the sun and applying the rules incident thereto, find the position of his vessel. Even though in mid-ocean, a correct application of the principles of mathematics will give a correct answer.

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