Article September 9, 1922 Issue

It was interesting to read your report of a meeting which...

John W. Harwood, Committee on Publication for Lancaster County, England,

Blackley and Harpurhey Guardian

It was interesting to read your report of a meeting which was held to consider healing by spiritual means. The clergyman who presided referred to the neglect by the church of the gifts of healing which belonged to the apostolic age, which had resulted in the formation of the Christian Science movement. It is good that the churches should recognize that in accordance with Jesus' commands, the healing of the sick must accompany the preaching of the gospel.

Christian Science was discovered by Mrs. Eddy in this way. She met with an accident which the doctor pronounced fatal. Through the illumination of the Scriptures, while reading an account of a case of healing by Jesus, she was instantaneously healed. This convinced her that there must be a law of God, ever operating, which, if understood, might be used for the benefit of mankind. For three years she studied the Scriptures, and through revelation, reason, and demonstration she gained the Science, or demonstrable truth, of Christianity. She thought the churches would welcome it with open arms, but found quite the opposite. Why? Because it was not in accord with their doctrines and creeds. And, since that time, the churches have been endeavoring to add, as they put it, the gift of healing to their present creeds. This has proved, and is sure to prove, a failure. The belief in God as finite, anthropomorphic, changeable, who, if not the creator of all the sorrow, evil, disease, and death in the world, is responsible for it, and permits it for some good purpose, and the belief that the kingdom of God can only be attained by dying—that which declares, "I believe in God, the Father, Almighty," and yet gives power to evil, disease, and so on—will never prove effective in destroying evil and healing disease.

Now Christian Science has succeeded because it is taking mankind back to the original teaching of Christ Jesus. In this way it is restroing primitive Christianity. It teaches that God is good, infinite, therefore omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and that consequently evil, including disease, not originating in God, is false. In the words of Jesus, devil or evil is a liar, and the fatehr of lies. He said, "There is no truth in him." The Master proved this to be true, for in fulfilling God's law, evil of every nature, and all manner of diseases, and even death, were destroyed; and he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," and, "These signs shall follow them that believe."

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

It was interesting to read your report of a meeting which...

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access