Article February 26, 1910 Issue

Christian Scientists believe in the omnipotence of God;...

W. C. Williams

Baltimore (Md.) News

Christian Scientists believe in the omnipotence of God; that He has as much power to replace sickness and disease with health as He has to replace darkness with light, and that He is no more a respecter of diseases than He is of persons. The editor of the New York Times, in commenting on a certain movement, said: "The founders of great religions have never discriminated between the 'functional' and the 'organic' in healing the sick, and for the follower of one of them to do so involves, in some opinions, a curious inconsistency." Another writer in the same paper made the statement that "either divine healing is a fact, or it is not. If it is, then setting selective limitations to omnipotence by restricting its operation to a short list picked from the myriad ills the flesh is heir to, constitutes such a contradiction of logic and of Bible history that it is surprising to see pious and learned ecclesiastics advocating it." An irrational theology is not one that brings good results, nor is a false science capable of being proved, but Christian Science is ready to be judged by its fruits, and it gives daily proofs to those who practise it that it is based on demonstrable Truth.

Our critic makes the statement that "change of thought invariably produces a corresponding change of body." Literally true is it that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Where is the limitation to nervous diseases or to any disease in this? Yet he scores Christian Scientists for not limiting their treatments to certain diseases, for not limiting the "very present help" of God. Yet he is right when he states that his above-quoted words are not Christian Science unless coupled with the understanding that "every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning:" but he is wrong in stating that Christian Scientists base their work on human suggestion, as that is exactly what they are working to over come.

When Science and Health is earnestly, honestly studied, its "religious thought" is not vague or baffling, but "clear and convincing;" and when understood it is not crude, for its teachings bring undreamed-of regeneration to its students: and it is not superstitious, for its whole basis is the Word of God.

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