Article August 21, 1902 Issue

The "Prayer of Faith" Heals the Sick

J. C. Batts

Farmuille (Va.) Herald

Mr. Editor:— Your reference to Christian Science contained in your late issue, is a misrepresentation (I do not mean a wilful one, however) of that large and highly respectable and intelligent body of Christian who adhere to this new-old teaching.

In the first place, Mr. Editor, Christian Scientists do not claim to be especially "chosen of God" for any particular purpose, but they do claim that through the apprehension of God which may be gained to-day through the study of the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health, in connection with the Bible, the same wonderful works which marked the exalted faith of apostolic days can be, and an being, repeated, so that we are seeing the fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy: "The deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness."

You say, "How glad all of us would be to believe these things," and I would only ask you to make the most casual examination of current history, and then ask yourself, "From whence is this teaching which is daily healing the sick and raising up the dying, and which has restored to health thousands of once hopelessly sick and suffering men and women; what is this new doctrine which is daily cleansing the sinner and reforming and transforming thousands of ignoble, wretched, sin-bound, and sin-sick unfortunates, and delivering them from the "bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God"? When you have made a fair and impartial investigation of Christian Science, and have ascertained the scope and tendency of its work, I believe you will concede that Christian Scientists read the "Bible as a whole" with as much, if not it more understanding than do others, and that the signs which follow them are identical with those which our Lord said should "follow them that believe."

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