Article June 22, 1918 Issue

"The man about town" has recently referred to Christian Science...

George C. Eames—Portland, Me.

Eastern Argus

"The man about town" has recently referred to Christian Science as a kind of "fatalism" whose adherents "believe in letting a cold have its run without doing anything for it." It may not be apparent to the casual observer just what is being done by Christian Scientists to overcome colds or other diseases, but the disappearance of these troubles in much less time than those under medical treatment should be sufficient evidence that the work has been done.

Submission to disease is never in accord with Christian Science, but the understanding of man's dominion over sickness and all other evil is taught by both the Christian Science textbook and the Bible. On page 420 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read: "Instruct the sick that they are not helpless victims, for if they will only accept Truth, they can resist disease and ward it off, as positively as they can the temptation to sin;" and on page 368: "When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error." Jesus said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The results of Christian Science practice correspond with the application of and fidelity to an understood Principle.

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