Article February 6, 1909 Issue

Our critic begins by declaring of Christian Science,...

W. E. Brown

Fresno (Cal.) Republican

Our critic begins by declaring of Christian Science, "There is in it nothing good that was not first in the church." Inasmuch as Christian Science is the religion of Jesus, it was necessarily first in the early Christian church, and secular history shows that for several centuries after the crucifixion the sick were healed and the dead raised by the understanding of the Master's teaching. Christian Science is not a new religion—it is primitive Christianity again operative among men, redeeming and saving the sick and sinning of earth, spiritually, morally, and physically. It is accomplishing these results in the same way and by the same method employed by Jesus, and expressed by him in that glorious promise, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." This method is the very opposite of the use of suggestion, which our critic thinks is the cause of the cures in Christian Science. Neither Jesus nor his disciples used suggestion, hypnotism, or mesmerism in any form. Neither did they employ drugs or material remedies of any kind. On the contrary, they taught absolute dependence on spirituality as a remedy for all mortal discord, including death itself. This point is strikingly emphasized in the case of King Asa, who "in his disease sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers,"

I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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