Article March 9, 1912 Issue

If Christian Science is "the very negation of reason and...

M. I. Whitcroft

Cheltenham (Glos. Eng.) Examiner

If Christian Science is "the very negation of reason and experience," then Christianity as taught and practised by Jesus must be described in like manner, for Christian Science is founded solely and entirely on the words and works of our Master, and is but a renewal or continuance of his practical demonstrations of the power of Truth to destroy every form of sickness and sin.

Christian Science is acknowledged as a great healing and regenerating power in the world today by broad-minded, thinking people, even though they may not be in accord with all its teachings. The publication of the facts of an occasional failure on the part of a Christian Scientist to heal a patient does not "assist in discrediting Christian Science," as the writer of the article in your issue of the 28th ult. fondly but ineffectually hopes it may, though the daily obituary column in the Times, or any other daily paper, certainly runs the risk of bringing discredit upon medical science, so called. Christian Scientists, however, have no desire to cast reflections upon those members of the medical profession who are devoting their lives to the endeavor to alleviate sickness and suffering, in accordance with the methods which appear to them to be the only right ones, although those same methods are of necessity purely experimental, because they do not rest upon a scientific basis and are constantly changing.

Again, if it "amounts to an act of self-destruction" to depend entirely upon the power of God, the understanding of Truth, to heal oneself or others, then the same argument would apply to all those who came to Jesus and his disciples for their healing, instead of going to the recognized physicians of their day, for Jesus and his students never used drugs nor advocated any other material remedy. Their healing work was based upon spiritual law, and their scientific knowledge of God as omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. Christian Science teaches its students to love God supremely, and their neighbor as themselves, and this alone calls for and should receive respect and not abuse from those who hold other opinions.

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