Article May 22, 1909 Issue

Among the vast number of Christian Scientists are to...

Frank C. Barrett

Portland (Me.) News

Among the vast number of Christian Scientists are to be found thousands of men and women whom the world has recognized as "intelligent," and who have won honor and distinction in their field of endeavor,—judges, lawyers, business men, clergymen, college professors, doctors, teachers, authors, and many others. These have all come to seek refuge from many cares, worries, etc. They were sick, or they wanted salvation for their souls, a more satisfactory explanation of God and their being; and at last they have found health, happiness, and peace, the peace that "passeth all understanding;" secure in the understanding of what the psalmist meant when he sang, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty;" that is, he who dwells in the consciousness of the omniscience, and omnipresence of God, good,—Life, Truth, Love,—is under the protection of the Almighty; he is in a place where sin, sickness, and death cannot reach him,—"hid with Christ" in the "secret place of the most High." But this place of the "most High" was a profound secret to all these intelligent people until they found it in Christian Science, and I venture to say that there are still many thousands of intelligent people who have earnestly sought health, happiness, and salvation for their souls, who will find what they are seeking when they turn to Christian Science.

Christian Scientists do not limit God's power to the healing of only functional diseases, but they take the Bible at its word, that it is He "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." Those who would use the arguments of mortal mind as a "backfire to Christian Science" are on dangerous ground, for Christian Science has exploded the fallacy that the human mind or will is a real healing agent. All real healing comes from God, the divine Mind from whom all blessings flow. As if to answer the question for all time, the apostle Paul wrote, "The carnal mind [human will] is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

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