Article October 3, 1914 Issue

My attention has been drawn to an editorial, recently published...

Algernon Hervey Bathurst—Wolverhampton, England

Midland Evening News

My attention has been drawn to an editorial, recently published in your paper, which referred to the home secretary's method of dealing with suffragettes. The article describes him as recommending "a sort of Christian Science process." In explanation of what this "process" is, it is stated that "Mr. McKenna suggests that the press should ignore the militants." Will you allow me to point out that, in the first place, Christian Science never recommends that anybody should ignore anything, and that, in the second place, Christian Science and faith-healing, which the writer of the article evidently considers are synonymous, are altogether different. I am in no way concerned with criticizing the home secretary's policy, nor is it for me to propose what steps he should take. It is, however, a matter of considerable interest to me that the public should know that the teaching of Christian Science is preeminently practical or scientific, which would certainly not be the case were Christian Scientists merely to "ignore" difficulties.

Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science owing to her intimate knowledge and spiritual discernment of the teaching of Christ Jesus. She then tested it thoroughly, and proved that the truth demonstrated by the Founder of Christianity is as available today as ever, not by ignoring sin and disease, but by healing those conditions. There are a great many business men who are earnest students of Christian Science, and they could scarcely be successful in the affairs of this world were they to ignore everything in the nature of a difficulty. It is perhaps because Christian Science is just as applicable to business affairs as to physical troubles that it is recognized as a preeminently practical religion. Indeed, it could not well be otherwise, since it is the reiteration of the teaching of Christ Jesus, who proved that a correct understanding of the law of God which he had come to fulfil, destroyed discord, evil, sin, and disease, and proved that man is not limited by the so-called laws of the carnal or mortal mind.

The only "Christian Science process," therefore, is the understanding and demonstration of the truth which Jesus said so emphatically would make men free. When Jesus healed the sick, stilled the tempest, or walked on the water, he ignored nothing, but most certainly knew the truth about God and His perfect creation, including man. That process or spiritual discernment of reality is today enabling Christian Scientists to heal themselves and others of troubles from many of which they had failed to find relief in any other direction.

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