Article April 15, 1905 Issue

The Right Practice

CLARENCE W. CHANDWICK.

In its reformatory mission among mortals, Christian Science is working a radical but most needful change in the general thought upon the subject of metaphysical healing. Thinking people are aware of the fact that some curative agency is at work in human consciousness, producing results that cannot be explained from any material standpoint. Various opinions are entertained as to the nature of this unseen agency, and in spite of the fact that every possible effort has been made to discredit what is being accomplished in the way of healing, thousands of the world's best people are daily turning to Christian Science for help. They find what they are after, health and happiness, and they find them in Mind, not in matter.

The most bitter opponents of Christian Science will agree with us that the sick should be healed, but there is the widest divergence of opinion as to the methods that should be employed. Jesus at one time asked, "When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" With the advent of Christian Science "we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding," but behold the faithlessness of the thousands who say they believe in Christ. When upon all sides they see the sick being restored to health, and men and women leading nobler and purer lives as a direct result of their interest in Christian Science, is it not strange that any professing Christians should be found who are more inclined to associate such works with Beelzebub than with Christ? Why do they so zealously discredit the signs of Christ's coming, the very signs which he said should and would follow every true disciple? Why should many of these good people cling tenaciously to their drugs, and oftentimes do their utmost to keep their loved ones from turning to Christian Science for help, when they well know that their Saviour never used nor advocated the use of drugs or any material remedy whatsoever, but healed the sick and the sinner alike through the power of divine Mind?

What valid reason have those who believe that God is all powerful, for thinking that the sick should not be healed to-day as they were in the early centuries? They firmly believe that it was the power of God which did the healing in those days, and they know that His power has not changed, that it is just as operative to-day as ever, just as capable of filling humanity's needs now as then, just as potent to heal and to save. This being so, why not let God do the work? Why swallow a non-intelligent, impotent, lifeless drug, and persist in thinking, "This will cure me"? that is, "This will do for me what God cannot." Is it an evidence of faith, even of the mustard-seed kind, to assume a position that ascribes less power to the living God than to a pill or to a stone image?

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