Article October 14, 1911 Issue

If materia medica were an exact science, which could be...

Charles W. J. Tennant

Glasgow (Scot.) Record and Mail

If materia medica were an exact science, which could be depended upon in every case, there would be no need for any other system of healing. Nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ presented to the world a perfect method of healing sin and disease and destroying death. He was never known to fail in a single case, no matter what the malady. He taught his disciples to heal all manner of disease and sin, and to raise the dead, and when they seemingly failed in the case of the lunatic boy, he stated that their failure was due to their unbelief, and said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."

Now Christendom has accepted the fact that the method of Jesus Christ is the only one whereby the sinner can be saved; then why does it not accept the same method by which the sick should be healed, especially since our Master classified sin and disease in the same category, and healed them by the same spiritual means? Has Christendom found a better way in the present-day systems? We doubt it. It is a matter of common knowledge that the early Christians, for over two hundred years after Christ Jesus left this earth, were able to heal the sick and raise the dead by the prayer of spiritual understanding.

Christian Science is the rediscovery of the scientific method by which Christ Jesus, his disciples, and the early Christians attained their wonderful results, and cases of every known disease, functional and organic, have been perfectly cured by this means—cases, too, which had baffled all other methods of healing.

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