Article December 6, 1913 Issue

In a recent issue I notice the Rev. A. J. Waldron's remarks...

John W. Doorly

The Oldham (England) Chronicle

In a recent issue I notice the Rev. A. J. Waldron's remarks on "The Mind and the Body," during which he declares that "the success of such cults as Christian Science is due to the bigotry, conservatism, or ignorance of the majority of the medical profession in the realm of psychology." He then goes on to speak of Christian Science as a strange cult, which is leading thousands astray. It is quite evident that he has no great opinion of materia medica in the realm of psychology, and yet he proceeds to state that "we are now entering a realm where the possibilities both for good and for evil are infinite. It is to the medical profession perhaps more than to any other that we look for guidance and help." In fact, the reverend gentleman calmly proposes that we should look to a profession the majority of whom, he states, are governed by "bigotry, conservatism, or ignorance," for the infinite possibilities of the future. Really, this is an astounding proposal. I wonder if he ever heard of Christ, or the "Spirit of truth," that we are assured will guide into all righteousness.

Christian Science, which this critic dismisses as a strange cult, is teaching men and women everywhere to look for a present salvation from every form of evil, including sin and disease, and not to hypnotism or inanimate drugs, as the clergyman proposes, but to God and His Christ, that is, to purely spiritual means. It is teaching mankind what that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" is, and how to obtain that Mind and to utilize it in the healing of disease, even as the Master commanded us to do. That a drugging system which has lost its hold upon humanity through its utter failure to heal, should be driven into the intricacies of that particular form of diabolism known as hypnotism, is not to be wondered at; but one utterly fails to comprehend how a minister of Christ's gospel can for one moment consider the possibility of recommending to any one the unreliable action of the human mind called hypnotism as a remedy for the ills of that very mind.

Meanwhile Christian Science, which teaches the absolute presence, power, and availability of the one Mind, God, has released an army of suffering men and women from every form of sin and disease, and has caused them really to understand God and His Christ, and to demonstrate them in their daily lives. Our Saviour's theology and his medicine were one,—"Whether is easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?"—and that one was the infinite law of good, forever making free from evil. It was with the understanding of that one law that he walked on the waters and fed the multitude, and in fact annulled every material law with the law of Spirit, or Mind. Our critic, like every other human being, will some day awake to the fact that humanity cannot be saved either through drugs, strange cults, or hypnotism, but that it is already being radically saved and healed through the truth which makes free, and this truth is unquestionably Christian Science, which is certainly succeeding far more than even this reverend gentleman has any idea, because it is based on unalterable truth.

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