Article December 22, 1906 Issue

Christian Science, in common with other forms of...

Anne H. Carter

Sun

Christian Science, in common with other forms of religious faith, reforms and regenerates morally and spiritually. Great numbers of Christian Scientists continually testify to improved moral conduct and to elevated spiritual experience, resulting from their interest in Christian Science. If its work were confined to this field alone, it would receive no more criticism than is incurred by forms of faith working only for moral and religious ends; but because Christian Science makes such strong and radical claims to heal disease it is sharply attacked, and because it has made these claims good by actually healing the sick and diseased it has been bitterly opposed.

That Christian Science, however, does heal the sick is sufficiently proved by the growth of the movement, which now includes thousands of people. This growth has taken place within fifteen or twenty years, and has been brought about almost entirely by the successes of Christian Science in healing disease. The growth of Christian Science is a matter of wonder when we consider the radical nature of its teachings respecting disease and sin, and the very strong tendency in us to cling to what is familiar, particularly to what has been taught us as true and final.

To say that Christian Science does not heal disease is to say that thousands of intelligent, sensible, honest people either do not know what they are talking about or are deliberately telling what they know to be untrue. Such, perhaps, might be said were Christian Scientists few in numbers and confined to out-of-the-way corners of the country; but since they number tens of thousands and are scattered over the globe, to prove such assertions becomes a somewhat more formidable undertaking.

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