Article July 2, 1910 Issue

The Bishop of Carlisle tells his medical congregation...

William J. Bonnin

Liverpool (Eng.) Courier

The Bishop of Carlisle tells his medical congregation that Christian Science ignores the phenomenon of pain, and does not make use of physical means. In regard to the second point, physical means are discarded in Christian Science only as they can be replaced by means that are more effectual. It cannot be argued that wireless telegraphy is unscientific because of the abandonment of the wire. Christian Science does not ignore pain. But it does say that in the divine order of creation pain has no place, that it is a result of a belief in the power of matter over mind, quite contrary to what the bishop called "the great fact of the immeasurable influence of mind over matter," and what Christian Science recognizes as the omnipotence of the one divine Mind.

As to the statement that Christian Science caricatures this great fact, it is a fair question to ask, Which is the caricature, to accord omnipotence all power and might in the healing of disease, or to assert that it needs the assistance of a few grains of vegetable or mineral matter to achieve its task?

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