Article February 15, 1913 Issue

A well-known medical journal recently suggested that...

Ezra W. Palmer

Denver (Col.) Post

A well-known medical journal recently suggested that Christian Scientists could use material means to advantage with the spiritual means they are now employing in healing the sick. The writer in this medical journal apparently has an erroneous view of the basis of Christian Science practise, as is evident from the above suggestion. To reason that a working combination of drugs and prayer would be effective and desirable for the good of humanity, is fallacious because it fails to take into account what really constitutes spiritual healing and the way to attain it.

Christian Science is based on the fundamental postulate of the allness of God, good, infinite Spirit, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. "God is love," declared the inspired apostle John. Since, therefore, God is Love, and is good, the creator of all things, it of necessity follows that His creations are like Him, good and not evil. Evil, disease, sickness, and death are of necessity ruled out of the true spiritual universe, and are unreal in the sense that they derive no authority or sanction from the one true cause, God. For example, it is apparent that errors are no part of the principle of mathematics, and as the student progresses in this science he finds that his knowledge enables him to detect and cast out errors which caused him to stumble earlier in his career. He sees more and more clearly that errors in mathematics are not real, not inherent in mathematics, but are merely the result of his human misconceptions.

In like manner the great Bible characters grasped the Science of being. They saw the true universe which God had created, spiritual, perfect, immortal. They saw also the corporeal human sense world, the objective world, and perceived its ephemeral nature. They furthermore discovered that, as they advanced in the understanding of God and His universe, material things, opposed to the divine nature, lost their appearance of permanence and reality and were seen as errors, illusions, having no part in the true creation and therefore rejected by a clearer vision as unnecessary and valueless. On this basis the prophets and apostles and Jesus Christ himself healed the sick, raised the dead, and proved irrefutably the power of Spirit over the assumptions of material phenomena. Jesus declared that those who believed on (understood) him, should have everlasting life; and to prove this he healed multitudes of all manner of diseases, showing the powerlessness of sense evidence before knowledge of spiritual reality.

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