Article January 25, 1913 Issue

The Bishop of Edinburgh, in an address reported in a...

W. C. Ferguson—Calgary, Alberta.

Albertan

The Bishop of Edinburgh, in an address reported in a recent issue of the Albertan, upon the subject of "Suffering as one of the Difficulties of a Christian's Faith," made reference to Christian Science as follows: There are "three ways in which we can regard pain: 1. The short cut put forward by Christian Science; that only our minds create it. Every doctor knows that certain diseases are liable to be removed by a healthy imagination. This is a truth which we ought to use more than we do."

It would be difficutl to say where the bishop obtained the information that Christian Science healed the sick by means of a healthy imagination, but it certainly was not from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, for on page 460 of that book she says: "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being." It will be seen, therefore, that according to the teaching of Christian Science it is not a healthy imagination which accomplishes the healing work, but an understanding that man's true being is spiritual and harmonious.

The bishop is further quoted as follows: "But how are accidents to limbs, gunshot wounds, etc., created in our mind? No, Christian Science only covers a very small part of the difficulty." The teaching of Christian Science upon this seemingly difficult problem of human woe and suffering is very concisely put on page 188 of the text-book above referred to: "Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind. In both the waking and the sleeping dream, the dreamer thinks that his body is material and the suffering is in that body."

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