Article December 27, 1913 Issue

The history of medical practise is a record of experimentation,...

George A. Law

Waterbury (Conn.) Republican

The history of medical practise is a record of experimentation, during which almost everything on this globe has at one time or another been taken by mankind as medicine. It has been a continuous performance of discarding methods and remedies for others, these also to be in turn as promptly rejected, so that today it is impossible to point to even one remedy known to cure disease. In the face of this, we are asked to abandon all other methods of healing and establish materia medica as the only scientific method.

It is common knowledge that the ranks of Christian Science are recruited from the failures of materia medica; therefore it is patent to all that if materia medica had fulfilled its mission, there would have been no turning away from it. Christian Science is a revival of the spiritual healing taught and practised by Jesus, who healed all manner of sickness by applying the spiritual laws of life to human experience. Jesus knew that man was created spiritual, and that everything God made was good, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis. He also knew that whatever did not measure up to the standard of good was no part of man's true experience, and therefore by a realization of the truth of being, the truth about God and man, thus eliminating illegitimate abnormalities, he healed sin and sickness, established harmony, and even overcame death and the grave. Inasmuch as the basis of Jesus' healing was an understanding of the absolute truth respecting God, His creation, and the spiritual laws governing same, including man, it can easily be appreciated that Jesus' healing was necessarily strictly scientific. Jesus was the one healer who knew no failure. It is beyond argument that those who show by healings already accomplished that they are striving to follow in his steps, should not be criticized for their efforts.

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