Article September 3, 1910 Issue

Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I...

W. C. Williams

Baltimore (Md.) American

Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" and healing, mentally, morally, and physically, was his work, accomplished through the power of God and not by material remedies. Nevertheless our critic says that the teaching that ministers can cure ills without the aid of medicine is "absolutely ridiculous." The promises of Jesus are fulfilled today as they always have been when explicit trust is placed in them. If there is anything "absolutely ridiculous," it is the heedless statement that the cures through Christian Science cited by Mrs. Eddy are falsehoods, when thousands upon thousands have testified to their healing by the truth in Christian Science, and in the majority of cases, after all other remedies had failed; therefore "sensible citizens" will not look upon them in the way the reverend doctor suggests.

Christian Scientists do not claim that ills are mere illusions, or borrowed from some other person's complaints. To the suffering, the pain or disease is tragically real; it is not "as nothing" to them until it is gone. Disease is only unreal from the standpoint that only that which God made is real, and Christian Scientists do not believe that a heavenly Father would be less merciful than a human one and inflict suffering on His innocent children. We are assured that "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made [us] free from the law of sin and death;" and again, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Our critic's vision might be cleared somewhat of his fanciful imaginings of what Christian Science is if he would use a little "brotherly love" mixed with the Biblical admonition "Judge not." There are unnumbered thousands of intelligent people in the world today who have proved and are proving daily that the law of God, as taught by Jesus and made clear by Mrs. Eddy in her "Key to the Scriptures," is an ever-present help in time of trouble.

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