Article April 2, 1904 Issue

A Word from Manila

with contributions from Maltbie Davenport Babcock

We are in receipt of copies of the Manila (Philippine Islands) Cable-News, containing an excellent portrait of our Leader and quite extended reference to Christian Science, including an editorial which expresses a good deal of humor and quite as much misapprehension respecting the subject. In answer to this last, "A Student of Christian Science" writes in part as follows:—

There lived years ago the great Nazarene teacher who understood so well the law of health that he was able to heal all manner of disease; he understood so much of Life that he was able to destroy death; he knew so much of the law of supply that he was able, with a few small loaves and fishes, to feed five thousand people; he had such a concept of Mind and its laws that he was able to walk on the water, still the tempest, and finally rise from the grave.

What did that mean to the world—to humanity? What does it mean to the world, to humanity, to-day? Does it really mean anything to us to-day? Was it merely the display of extraordinary power bestowed on him in a supernatural way, or was it the understanding of a Principle of which we may gain some understanding, and of which he came to teach mankind? It certainly must be the latter, for the apostles were all flesh and blood "like as we are," many of them humble fisherman that he picked up at the seashore, and yet after being taught, they were able to heal the sick, and lame, and blind, and even to raise the dead. And those students who never came in contact with Jesus personally did "many wonderful works."

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