Christian Scientists are glad to have you give a three column...

Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle

Christian Scientists are glad to have you give a three column space, in reporting a recent evangelist's sermon, to the statement that "cures must come from God." They will also echo the evangelist's protest against any one treating human beings for disease "without the love of God in his heart." They are familiar with the statement that "physicians, whom the sick employ in their helplessness, should be models of virtue," as found on page 235 of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and Mrs. Eddy's further statement on page 366 of the same work: "In order to cure his patient, the metaphysician must first cast moral evils out of himself and thus attain the spiritual freedom which will enable him to cast physical evils out of his patient."

It is strange, indeed, in a sermon in which Christian Scientists find much with which to agree, that one should find an exhortation not to permit Christian Science "to rob Christianity of the great truth of Christ's power to heal the body as well as the soul."

Perhaps the evangelist believes that Christian Science metaphysics deals with the phenomena of the mirage-like mind which St. Paul defined as "enmity against God," and which believes it cannot even think without a material brain. If so, he is simply mistaken. True to the definition of the word metaphysics (above physics), Christian Science deals with that Mind, God, of which the human so-called mind is merely the counterfeit. Human beings consciously avail themselves of the divine Mind as they recognize its omnipresence and understand spiritual truth. Obviously the fluctuating and erroneous beliefs of the human mind, which may have seemed to be in possession, disappear utterly when that is accomplished, whether they spelled sin, disease, or any other form involving ignorance of the true man formed in God's image.

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