Article August 6, 1910 Issue

It is well known that Christian Scientists minister to sick...

Herbert M. Beck—Little Rock, Ark.

Arkansas Democrat,

It is well known that Christian Scientists minister to sick people and they become well. Many are the instances where all other help had failed and all other hope had fled. This, according to the preacher, is "rankest blasphemy;" but it does not seem so to the practising Christian Scientist and it does not seem so to the one who is healed and can say: "Whereas I was blind, now I see." In Christian Scientist it does not appear how it could possibly be blasphemy to do these works.

The text of the sermon, as reported, reads: "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." Luke says: "And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." Jesus commands, in John's gospel, "Verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." In Mark we read: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

In Gibbon's "Roman Empire" (Vol. II., p. 107) it reads: "The miraculous cure of diseases of the most inveterate or even preternatural kind can no longer occasion any surprise, when we recollect that in the days of Irenaeus, about the end of the second century, the resurrection of the dead was very far from being esteemed an uncommon event."

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