Article July 22, 1922 Issue

Christian Science itself needs neither apology nor defense

Willard J. Welch, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,

Sioux City Tribune

Christian Science itself needs neither apology nor defense. Throughout civilization it is known by its fruits. To say it is not Christian and that "it denies the fundamental principles of Christian faith" is like saying that Christian faith is not based upon the teaching of Jesus. Christian Science is the primitive religion of Jesus the Christ, as taught and demonstrated by him; and to say that "neither is it scientific" is like denying the correctness of the dictionary definition of the word "science" as a "knowledge of principles or facts." The man who was a thief, a drunkard, an outcast, or an invalid, but who through Christian Science healing is now a normal, self-respecting citizen restored to his family and community, has gained some "knowledge of principles or facts"—knowledge of God. There are many such living witnesses to the power of divine Love, made clear to them through Christian Science teaching and healing.

Rightly does our critic say, "Ninety-five per cent of the converts to Christian Science are made through healing." Many who at one time had "one foot in the grave" have through Christian Science gained that understanding of God whereby they have learned to sing with the psalmist, "He ... set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."

Our critic says "the cases helped are the imaginary ills of life," and that no case "of actual organic healing ... has been banished or even arrested in Christian Science,"—a statement directly at variance with legally attested facts. Attendance upon many of the Christian testimony meetings, held every Wednesday night throughout the land, and listening to the spontaneous expressions of love and gratitude to God for Christian Science, and the honest investigation of any case, will prove to the most skeptical the truth of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Christian Science is the power of God come down to mankind to heal every discordant condition in the degree that men understand God, and trust Him implicitly. It is the activity of infinite Love, which "is no respecter of persons," and proclaims "liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound."

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