Article July 9, 1910 Issue

If this English medical critic objects to the teaching of...

J. M. Jackson

Toronto (Ont.) Mail and Empire

If this English medical critic objects to the teaching of Christian Science that "Mind is all and matter is naught" (Science and Health, p. 109), doubtless he would also find fault with the parallel statement of Jesus, accepted by all Christian denominations, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh [matter] profiteth nothing." It is as well at the outset to know whether we accept the Scriptural teaching or are merely contending for human opinions. Christian Scientists prefer to accept the teaching of Scripture.

This critic flounders around at some length in his endeavor to determine whether disease exists in mortal mind or in animals. Here Christian Science comes to his rescue and explains that disease appears to be manifested in animals as in human beings, because for centuries the world has entertained a false sense of God's creation, conceiving it to be material, when it is in reality spiritual. and this fact can be proved in Christian Science when animals as well as human heings can be relieved by one and the same process, viz., by knowing the truth about them—which is, that they also are subject to divine Mind.

In reply to the statements that Christian Science "never stirs a finger to help" cases of diphtheria, hemorrhage. cancer, etc., that she "refuses to see any real difference between" functional and organic diseases, that "she never examines a patient, takes a temperature, reads a medical book, ... dissects a specimen," etc., and "sends out her healers absolutely ignorant of the very elements of anatomy, physiology," etc., it may be said that precisely the same fault might be found with Jesus and the disciples, who never diagnosed, dissected, or sawed up those who came to them for help, but simply healed them. Possibly, however, science has made such vast strides since then that we are now in advance of those men! Or can it be possible that "the wisdom of this world" and its material methods of accomplishing ends, is still "foolishness with God"?

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