Article October 7, 1922 Issue

The clergyman, writing in a recent issue of your paper,...

Elmer McBurney, Committee on Publication for Northern California,

Berkeley Gazette

The clergyman, writing in a recent issue of your paper, is quite right in asserting that Christian Science recognizes no limit to the power of Christianity to cure disease. The reason for the radical stand of Christian Science on this point is that Science recognizes that God does the healing. Certainly no Christian would admit that there is anything impossible to Him. The clergyman intimates that Christian Science practice in healing the sick is the practice of suggestion. He would hardly say, however, that Jesus resorted to suggestion in working his remarkable cures. Christian Scientists are fully convinced that they are employing the same system which Jesus employed, and counseled others to rely upon. Did he not say, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also"?

That there is nothing novel in Christian Science healing is quite true. It was practiced by Jesus throughout his ministry, and by his followers for two or three centuries after the crucifixion. Mary Baker Eddy was herself healed of a supposedly incurable malady while reading a gospel account of healing. Thereupon, to use her own words, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 109), she said, "I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration." Mrs. Eddy also said (p. 110), "In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible was my only textbook." Students of Christian Science realize that its teachings are based upon the Bible, and are in accordance with what Jesus taught and did. Therefore, they have no hesitancy in offering Christian Science to those who are in sorrow or distress. They have no fear that its teachings will be found lacking or will pass away. Indeed, each day brings forth new evidence of the efficacy of Christian Science.

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