Article April 8, 1922 Issue

In two recent issues you gave space to reports of a lecture...

Hugh S. Hughes

Baraboo (Wis.) Republic

In two recent issues you gave space to reports of a lecture by one who claims to expound the "difference between real spiritual healing and the healing practiced by various cults, such as New Thought, Christian Science, and the Yogi Philosophers."

It is impossible to say how much the reverend gentleman really knows about "New Thought" or the "Yogi Philosophers," but he certainly has not grasped the basic teaching of Christian Science or he would not couple it with those others. Christian Science healing is the true spiritual healing taught and practiced by the Master and by his followers for three hundred years after his ascension.

When Mary Baker Eddy rediscovered in 1866 this spiritual healing, few, if any, of the Christian churches even attempted to heal the sick spiritually; but she predicted that "in the twentieth century every Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding of Christian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name" (Pulpit and Press, p. 22). This prediction is fast being fulfilled, and the churches are at least endeavoring to awaken themselves to the importance of following the Master's command to preach the gospel and heal the sick. It is regrettable, however, that, like the high priests of yore, the churches should lend themselves to attacks on the Christ, and endeavor to discredit the one church which was designated to "commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17).

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