Article May 2, 1903 Issue

To those who have only a theoretical rather than a...

Alfred Farlow

Lowell (Mass.) News

To those who have only a theoretical rather than a practical knowledge of Christian Science and its efficacy, it is humanly natural that a dependence upon it and the exclusion of medicine should seem a neglect rather than a help; but the Christian Scientist who has had experience, first with medicine and lastly with this Science, has proved convincingly to himself that in his dependence upon God he has chosen the better part. The adherents of this faith invite their friends to prove Christian Science by experience rather than to judge it by its theory as compared with that which they already believe. The question with the critic should not be, Does the new idea agree with older and more thoroughly established beliefs? but, Is it true from the standpoint of supreme intelligence and practical demonstration? Christian Scientists may not be doing anything in the sight of those who look no farther than the material. Jesus and his apostles were supposed to be doing something—the greatest possible thing—when they prayed for the sick, and the results proved this. Our Master was the greatest physician, the most successful one whom the world has ever known, and yet he never administered nor recommended medicine. Alfred Farlow.
In Lowell (Mass.) News

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