Article January 13, 1917 Issue

In an article signed "Hopeful" a writer seems to think...

Lloyd B. Coate

Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch

In an article signed "Hopeful" a writer seems to think that if Christian Scientists can do the healing work which they are doing, they should emigrate en masse to Europe to aid the wounded. Perhaps no better reply could be given than these words of Jesus, when he was criticized for not doing the same healing work in Nazareth that he did in Capernaum: "But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian."

The narrative says that when those that were in the synagogue heard these words of Jesus they "were filled with wrath" and ready to cast him down headlong over the brow of the hill. Until people were ready for the truth, even Jesus could not force them to accept it. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 238): "Truth often remains unsought, until we seek this remedy for human woe because we suffer severely from error."

In almost every city and town in our own country, and in many places in other lands, living witnesses of the healing efficacy of Christian Science may be found by any sincere seeker after truth. Through Christian Science many have been rescued from lives of sin and vice, and some have been lifted from the very depths of degradation and depravity and have become useful members of society.

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