Article January 2, 1904 Issue

The Christian Scientists proceed from the premise that all...

Telegraph-Herald

The Christian Scientists proceed from the premise that all things are possible to God, and that not the least of these powers is ability, willingness, and desire to heal the maimed and the sick. They believe sickness to be a consequent upon sin, and that it can be avoided and cured by perfect faith in God, love of fellows, and the living of the Christian life every day.

Is there anything preposterous in this belief and in the claims that proceed from it? It taxes the material understanding to agree that prayer will set a fractured limb, or that it will remove a cancerous growth. Yet accepting the premise of the Scientists, that all things are possible to God, is their belief unreasonable? are we to judge of what is possible and what impossible to the Divinity? Whence comes authority to affirm that the great Healer can not set a fractured limb or heal the cancerous growth? and whence the authority to declare that He will not, if the sufferer lives the Christian life and puts his faith absolutely in God?

The Scientists should be free to practise their faith without restrictions of legal fetters. Nothing is thought of it when a physician's patient dies under treatment, but when a Science patient dies under treatment, the fact is heralded broadcast. That is because the one death is not news and the other is.

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