Article October 10, 1908 Issue

Christian Science heals entirely by a reliance on God

C. R. Munro

Hamilton (Can.) Spectator

Christian Science heals entirely by a reliance on God, and an absolute faith in His power to cure all manner of diseases, whether functional or organic, and whether in their early or advanced stages. Christian Science accepts fully and unreservedly the teachings of Jesus and follows unswervingly in his methods. He never advocated, by word or example, the use of material means of healing, never employed mental suggestion, and never taught his followers to do so. He knew that God, the "great Physician," is able to heal all things, without recourse to any material means or methods. We can scarcely imagine Jesus as consulting a physician to know whether a disease were safe for him to treat, or whether it should be left to the physician.

There are some Christian teachers who regard disease as being of material origin, and accept the usual medical theories in connection with the body. Their treatment is a combination of medical methods and mental suggestion, while Christian Science heals through an understanding of God and man's relation to God, which understanding, when properly applied, effects as sure and certain results as the working out of a problem in mathematics when the principle of mathematics is understood and adhered to. Jesus worked according to Principle, and to a fixed and definite rule, which he taught to his disciples, and his practice was in no way connected with the medical practice of his day. Jesus in no way resorted to the use of mental suggestion or hypnotism. He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The truth he taught was not mental suggestion, but the ever-presence and ever-availability of a God who is Spirit—"a very present help in trouble"—and of man, who does not need to be diagnosed or doctored in order to be made perfect, but who is already made "in the image of God."

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