Article September 30, 1905 Issue

The dilettante may assure himself he knows all about...

WILLARD S. MATTOX

New Haven (Conn.) Register

The dilettante may assure himself he knows all about Christian Science, even that he knows more about how the work is done than the Christian Scientist himself, but really no one is competent to say what constitutes Christian Science healing unless he has actually demonstrated the rules laid done in the Christian Science text-book. That book says that Christian Science practice is a revival of primitive Christian healing; that in a modest degree it is a repetition of the work done by Jesus and his followers; that it is based on the same Principle, and that Principle is God. The Christian Science text-book says that Jesus healed because of his transcendant goodness; that nothing but a good mind or a mind filled with goodness can heal, and that hypnotism, or the action of the human will, is no more a part of Christian Science healing than it was a part of Jesus' work.

The hope of a suffering world is supported to-day by the growing conviction that there is something outside of human ingenuity and drugs which can and does heal disease, and that this divine power heals one disease as readily as it does another. Jesus' ministry proved this to be true. We are in a hopeless and helpless state if neither matter nor immortal Mind can destroy certain types of ailment, such as those caused by bacilli. If this be true, we are forced to the melancholy conclusion that these are non-destructible, hence, eternal, and that they will accompany the human race throughout eternity. From such darkness and superstition, Christian Science is lifting mankind by healing the very things hitherto considered incurable.

WILLARD S. MATTOX.
New Haven (Conn.) Register.

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