Article July 25, 1914 Issue

Considerable publicity was given to a recent attack on...

Ezra W. Palmer

Rocky Ford (Col.) Tribune

Considerable publicity was given to a recent attack on Christian Science by an evangelist who for several weeks has been preaching in your city. He is reported in the press as being in Rocky Ford for the purpose of bringing people into closer communion with God, but he evidently departed in a marked degree from his purpose when he emitted a torrent of abuse of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. However, Mrs. Eddy occupies a place of honor in the world today quite beyond the power of any personal abuse to impair. She founded a church whose ministries are world-wide. She discovered again for humanity the healing power of God, which, except in sporadic instances, had been lost sight of since the fourth century; and by means of this an innumerable multitude of sufferers have been healed of all manner of disease and every form of sin. She established an international daily newspaper, published in the interests of humanity and circulated throughout the civilized world.

This evangelist is not quoted as giving Mrs. Eddy credit for her Christian life or godly works, but he has made her the target for abuse and vituperation. One well-known gentleman of your city stated that the attack was in all probability due to the fact that many converts, on signed cards, expressed their preference for the Christian Science church. I submit the proposition that by every consideration of Christian courtesy and fair dealing, no person has any moral right to attempt to poison the minds of the people against any church, and especially against a church which so closely follows the Master's teachings as does the Christian Science church.

The sermons of the evangelist were quoted at considerable length in the press of your city. The gentleman stood forth as an exponent of Christ's teachings, but I find no record of any sick person being healed at his meetings or any quotations from him in the press in which he advocated healing the sick by prayer, or expressed his belief that this is possible. And yet Jesus healed the sick, multitudes of them; his apostles did the same, and the early Christians for three centuries healed the sick and raised the dead. Time and again the great Master declared that his followers should heal by prayer, and he never limited this divine manifestation of God's power to any period of time or to any group of persons. It was a divine gift for all men who should grasp the tremendous fact of the allness of Spirit.

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