Article January 4, 1913 Issue

The interest in the teachings of Christian Science and its...

H. Farmer Hall

Sussex (Brighton, Eng.) News

The interest in the teachings of Christian Science and its unparalleled growth throughout the civilized world are due, in a very large degree, to the physical healings experienced by those who in their need have turned to it when all material remedies have failed. Countless numbers today affirm, with heartfelt gratitude, that through the truths taught in the text-book of Christian Science ("Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy) they have been led into such an understanding of the Christ that they have been healed of their physical and moral ills.

It seems somewhat surprising, under these circumstances, that the dean of St. Paul's should find it difficult to discover, in his investigation of Christian Science, "any evidence at all of any phenomenon which suggested supernatural intervention" (I presume that by "supernatural intervention" the gentleman means divine intervention). Nevertheless these are the words attributed to him in your issue of the twenty-first, reporting his sermon at the Brighton parish church. I can only conclude that a perfectly overwhelming number of intelligent and independent thinkers have succeeded where this critic has failed. Further, I fear that it seems not unlikely that the dean and the investigating committee of which he speaks, will continue in their unsuccessful attempt to discover satisfactory evidence of Christian Science healing, while the ranks of the Christian Scientists continue to swell with the numbers of those who have found the Christ a Saviour from disease as well as sin.

Lest, however, the public should be led to misunderstand the teachings and practises of Christian Science, and to conclude from the critic's remarks that these practises are in any way allied to occultism in its various forms, may I be allowed to say that Christian Science does not regard the human mind as a healing agent, but on the contrary perceives that the employment of a so-called mental force which claims to be able to affect its subject both for good and evil, has no relationship whatever with that Mind which was in Christ Jesus, i.e., the divine Mind, through which Jesus accomplished his healing works. Christian Scientists accept unreservedly the teachings of Jesus the Christ.

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