Article June 8, 1918 Issue

Whenever anyone is led to discuss a subject upon which...

W. Stuart Booth—Denver, Col.

Western Medical Times

Whenever anyone is led to discuss a subject upon which he is not informed, he is quite sure to wander from the beaten path of fact into a maze of his own misconceptions, where he becomes woefully mired and confused, without, however, realizing his condition, much as a man lost in a forest without a compass will believe himself to be making progress when he is but going round and round. A considerable number of physicians have exchanged their material methods of practice for the spiritual as taught in Christian Science; but if a Christian Scientist, other than these, were to attempt the explanation of medical practice, he would probably become as hopelessly entangled as did the physician who tried to write about Christian Science in a recent issue of the Times.

This good doctor may be well-read in medical books, but the Book of books, the Bible, has evidently been studied little by him, else he would not have made the absurd statement that Christ Jesus never prayed but twice, and never prayed for anyone's healing. As a matter of fact his life was one of ceaseless prayer, and because of this he said, "Men ought always to pray." When asked by the disciples why they had failed to heal the epileptic boy whom he had restored, Jesus said, "This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting,"—irrefutable evidence that such was his own healing method. The doctor again shows his unfamiliarity with Scripture when he claims that Christ Jesus delegated healing power to Peter only, whereas the Master specifically instructed not only the twelve but the seventy as well, to "heal the sick." Futhermore by consulting the twelfth verse of the fourteenth chapter of John it will be found that Christ Jesus promised, "He that believth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Evidently the early Christian accepted this promise; for, according to Gibbon's History of Rome, they healed the sick and even raised the dead, up to the third century a. d. The study of the last few verses of Mark is also recommended in this connection.

When Christ Jesus said, "I and my Father are one," he did not refer to his material body; for he also stated, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." According to Scripture God is Spirit, and hence man, made in His image, must be and is spiritual; herein is the oneness of God and man. On page 361 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being."

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