Article December 20, 1913 Issue

The gentleman of the medical fraternity who attacked...

Ezra W. Palmer—Colorado Springs, Col.

The Gazette

The gentleman of the medical fraternity who attacked Christian Science in a recent issue, objects to it because it teaches the fallibility of the material senses. He quotes the lecturer as saying that "only disaster follows this evidence," and then enters a plea for the physical senses, claiming that life, goodness, intelligence, mind, love, are all, as he puts it, "predicated" on the human senses.

The critic shows his ignorance by declaring that Christian Science is based on feeling, which he defines as love, and declares "there can be no such thing as love without the senses." Again he is reminded that St. John defines God as Love, and this infinite, ever-present Love is the basis of Christian Science. Nowhere in the Bible is there any warrant for the assertion that Love, when used as a synonym for God, or when used to define man's relation to God, as in the sentence, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God," has any connection whatever with the physical senses or any human emotion or feeling. Such a view is a travesty on the teachings of Jesus, and the apostles and prophets. An analysis of the claims of disease, sin, sickness, and disaster, shows them all to be based upon the evidence of the physical senses. It is this false evidence deluding mankind which Christian Science combats. Did men understand God, look to Him singly and entirely, sin, sickness, and death would pass away, and man's rightful existence as a pure and perfect child of the ever-present God would be apprehended and demonstrated.

The weakness of this critic's attack on Christian Science lies in his inability to distinguish between spiritual verities and the material sense of things. As well argue that the earth is flat because the eye does not see otherwise. There is not the remotest possibility of Christian Science ever being associated with hospitals, as he surmises. Christian Scientists have in God a safer reliance in trouble than any human treatment can bestow.

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