Article March 22, 1913 Issue

I have read the article entitled "The Doctor Faith-healer"...

Algernon Hervey-Bathurst—London, England.

Saturday Review

I have read the article entitled "The Doctor Faith-healer" in a recent issue and regret that the writer should have thought fit to include in it statements with regard to Christian Science long since worn threadbare. It is quite true that the feature of Christian Science which appeals most forcibly to the inquirer is this, that by its means disease is healed without the use of drugs. The physical healing is, however, by no means the most important feature. It is equally true that many turn to Christian Science because they have endeavored to find relief from numerous sources but have failed. Mrs. Eddy writes, on page 2 of "Rudimental Divine Science": "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin." Christian Science not only heals the sick, but protects from sickness those who practise its teachings, and proves that, as Christ Jesus explained to the scribes, sin and sickness are to be healed in one and the same way.

The healing in Christian Science is brought about, not by exalting the body "to a non-religious and selfish preeminence," but by being "willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." In other words, Christian Science proves that the creation of God includes no more of evil, disease, sin, or discord than it did when Jesus was teaching in Galilee. He declared that a knowledge of truth would make men free. The truth, as he knew and demonstrated it, clearly was that neither sin nor sickness was real; that is, sustained by the law of God, the law he declared emphatically he had come to fulfil. Whether the remarkable results accomplished in this manner are described as "denying the existence of disease," matters little, especially to the sufferer who has been freed. The fact remains that, as Mrs. Eddy writes, on page 10 of "Rudimental Divine Science," "disease is a thing of thought manifested on the body," and that through right thinking, or the ability to discern between absolute truth and error, students of Christian Science are enabled to afford to themselves and others, in a measure at least, proof of the practical nature of the teachings of Christ Jesus, which are just as available to mankind today as when he first gave them to his disciples. It is true that today, as nineteen hundred years ago, the healing of sickness by purely metaphysical means appears unreasonable in the eyes of the world. Nevertheless, the fact that Christian Science is demonstrable and affords proof of the disease of every nature, is sufficient answer to the lame argument that "the science of it [is] an absurdity."

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