Article March 22, 1913 Issue

It cannot be too widely known that Christian Science has...

William J. Bonnin—Blackpool, England.

Weekly Standard

It cannot be too widely known that Christian Science has nothing in common with human will-power, and so I ask your permission to correct the statement in a recent issue which would lead the casual reader to imagine that the healing achieved in Christian Science is in some way the outcome of the exercise of such an agency. Christianity was not given to the world to teach men that they were to be saved from sin and suffering by the exercise of human will-power. It was the power of the divine will that Christianity had to reveal, and the work of Christian Science is to develop that spiritual understanding which alone can grasp such a revelation. And when the omnipotence of the divine will is seen, then the falsity of the supposed power of the human will is exposed, and one begins to understand Paul's word, "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." And so Christian Science is not a matter of blind faith; it is spiritual enlightenment, and it heals the sick through the power of Spirit and spiritual law.

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