Article October 2, 1909 Issue

The clergyman's assertion that "Christian Science has...

Alfred Farlow

Montreal (Can.) Witness

The clergyman's assertion that "Christian Science has stumbled upon a great health-producing principle, with no more idea than the man in the moon how it got there," means simply that he has failed to comprehend how it got there. One who is not well informed on the subject of mathematics might say that the mathematician has stumbled on to a rule without knowing how he got there, but it does not so appear to the one who understands sufficiently to demonstrate the proposition according to the rule.

Christian Science is indeed a science which can be understood and practised by any one who is willing to accept it. So far as concerns the proposition to "limit its field of treatment to functional disorders," experience proves that it is easier to cure some people of a serious organic malady than it is to cure others of the most simple functional disorder. God's method of healing the sick is as sure in its result as a rule in mathematics. If one problem seems more difficult than another, it is only because the pupil does not sufficiently understand the rule. There is no such thing as a difficult problem to master, for the same reason that the Master of Christianity always succeeded, while his disciples were sometimes baffled in their efforts. The proper remedy for this situation, however, does not lie in the practice of leaving the most difficult cases to the physician, but in striving for a higher degree of spirituality.

Far from "doing away with the fair common sense of the interpretation of the Scriptures," Christian Science plants itself unreservedly upon the Scriptures. Its premises are Scripture affirmations.

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