Article February 14, 1920 Issue

I have read with interest the correspondence between...

Charles W. J. Tennant

Tunbridge Wells (England) Advertiser

I have read with interest the correspondence between Major Liebenrood and my assistant, Mr. Primrose, on the subject of Christian Science. In a recent issue I have also read a criticism of the same subject by "Plain Tommy."

From a close study of Major Liebenrood's letters, it certainly is quite evident that he has not been criticizing Christian Science as understood by those in a position to demonstrate it. He has merely attacked what he imagines it to be. Christian Science is primitive Christianity, unadulterated by scholastic theology, and is being discerned by those who have eyes to see, inasmuch as it is fulfilling the requirements of the Christianity of Jesus, as shown by the "signs" which he promised would follow an understanding of what he taught. Christian Science is restoring to mankind the spiritual understanding of the word of God, which rendered it available for the destruction of sin, disease, and death throughout the Scriptural period.

"Plain Tommy" seems to have forgotten completely how Elijah, Elisha, Moses, Jesus and his disciples, and the early Christians healed the sick and reformed the sinner. They did so through spiritual means alone. They not only healed organic and functional disease, but raised the dead. Medical theories have been in vogue for four thousand years, and about every known animal, mineral, vegetable, and gaseous element has been used, in some form, in the attempt to heal the sick; and yet there is not one absolute and unfailing remedy for a single disease known to-day in the pharmacopœia. Why? Because there is nothing in a drug to change a man's thoughts from wrong to right. It is an encouraging sign that the medical fraternity are recognizing the mental origin of disease.

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