Article October 25, 1913 Issue

Referring to the article in a recent issue in reference to...

The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press and Times

Referring to the article in a recent issue in reference to Christian Science, please allow me to say that in the Preface of Science and Health (p. x), Mrs. Eddy says: "The divine Principle of healing is proved in the personal experience of any sincere seeker of Truth. Its purpose is good, and its practise is safer and more potent than that of any other sanitary method. . . . Only those quarrel with her method who do not understand her meaning, or discerning the truth, come not to the light lest their works be reproved."

Our Master gave his followers a rule whereby they might know the good from the evil. Jesus said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits. . . . A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." Christian Science may be known by its fruits. Nothing is doing more today to raise the standard of health and morals than Christian Science, for its followers are striving to keep the commandments and to do the works of the founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ; therefore Christian Science is Christian, and is scientific because it is governed by a fixed Principle and a given rule, and provides the proof of its own correctness. I know it is so, for I speak as one who stood and looked into an open grave for months. Four of the leading physicians in my native town and two specialists had declared I had an incurable organic disease, and all medical, hygienic, and other methods had been tried; but they had failed, and so were abandoned, when I was led to Christian Science, and was completely and fully healed, and have had perfect health ever since. It is not so much the physical healing for which Christian Scientists are grateful, however, as for the spiritual uplift, the better knowledge which Christian Science imparts of God and His universe and His love. Christian Scientists are striving to become more Christlike, to have that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," and "to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure" (Science and Health, p. 497).

The tree is good and the fruit is good, and the lives of Christian Scientists attest their sincerity. The best evidence of their good works is the wide-spread interest in Christian Science, and its unparalleled growth and marvelous healing. Unnumbered cases of so-called incurable diseases have been healed through Christian Science treatment after all other methods had failed. Christian Science is now accessible to all, and in all parts of the globe is reforming and healing, lifting the burden of sorrow from the desolate, the sense of injustice from the oppressed, rounding out barren lives, straightening out misshapen bodies, purifying diseased organs, strengthening weak limbs, spreading the beauty of holiness over faces distorted by pain, gathering the sheep that have strayed; in a word, Christian Scientists are trying to do the work our Master commanded his followers to do, viz., "to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick," and we have the absolute proof that Christian Science is Christian and scientific, as our Master promised we should, in the signs which follow.

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