Article March 11, 1916 Issue

We will agree with our friend, a local clergyman, in his...

Thomas E. Boland

Warren (Pa.) Times

We will agree with our friend, a local clergyman, in his declaration that "illness in one or another shape is a very general human experience, and anything which addresses itself to illness, and particularly promises to subdue or do away with illness, is sure to claim the immediate interest of many persons." The fact that medical science has been on the field for centuries and yet these conditions exist, would seem to indicate some lack of complete satisfaction with prevalent systems; and since the public looks eagerly for more efficient methods in other directions, it is not remarkable that it should do so in the vitally important matter of getting rid of sickness and disease.

Christian Science does not profess to be a new thing, but simply an eternal truth reapplied in this age. It is older far than Berkeley, whose "metaphyscial idealism," the critic mistakenly declares, is practically the same thing. Berkeley formulated some interesting theories regarding the unsubstantiality of matter, and so have other physicists and philosophers, but it is quite safe to say that no one would be more surprised than the good bishop himself could he know that to him is attributed a system of religion identical with what is today known as Christian Science.

Christian Scientists believe that he who spake as never man spake before, and who healed "all manner of sickness," was the most accurate thinker of all time, and knew more about God and man than any other being who ever trod the earth. They believe that Jesus presented the universal panacea for both sin and disease when he declared, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free;" that he gave the one perfect prescription for the ages when he declared, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." They believe the gospel ought to be and is a whole gospel, and that it provides the means not only for overcoming sin but also for destroying disease and suffering. They believe the works of Jesus indicated this beyond all question, and that the metaphysics which he taught, when understood, will not "bewilder" but enlighten. They believe that Christian Science, so far from "going outside the old church of Christ," is simply giving the church its full and rightful function of saving men from every phase of evil.

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