Selected Articles December 10, 1910 Issue

There are those who say that Christian Science does not...

Judge L. H. Jones

Paducah (Ky.) Sun

There are those who say that Christian Science does not heal, or that it heals only functional and nervous disorders, but there are thousands of competent witnesses, as competent as any that testified to Jesus' healing works, who are telling the people from their own personal experience of the healing; that it does heal, and has healed every form of disease known to the medical profession.

Suppose these people are telling the truth. In the light of the Master's denunciation of those who reject his healing gospel, what of the ministers and others who are everywhere ridiculing and deriding those who stand for the healing power of Jesus' word today as of old? Who denied Jesus' healing in Palestine, who said he healed by the power of Beelzebub, who set the mob on him, and finally crucified him? The scribes and Pharisees, the ministers and orthodox church people of that day. The crime is so horrible that we fain would think it could only have been commited by the worst and most degraded element of society, but it is not so. The scribes and Pharisees were the highly educated, cultured, and most respectable people, who stood for law and order, who upheld society, who constituted society, who stood for morality and supported the church. In all these respects they were not a whit inferior to the same class of people today. They were devout religionists, and believed that in crucifying Jesus and rejecting and deriding his healing truth they were serving the best interests of the people and the church and were doing what their God wanted them to do. Is history repeating itself today?

Christian Science teaches no such silly doctrine as that sickness and pain can be destroyed by simply denying it or thinking it is unreal. It teaches the unreality of these things in the same sense exactly that scientists and philosophers in all ages have understood the "real" and the "unreal." It teaches that sickness, pain, etc., belong to and are confined to the sense world, the world of carnal or fleshly and material things, which is phenomenal and unreal as contrasted with the spiritual and real universe, which contains all that God created; that this, being the universe of God's creating, is the kingdom of God spoken of in the Bible, and that into it no sickness, sin, nor death can enter—neither anything that "maketh a lie."

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