Article February 3, 1923 Issue

Christian Science adheres strictly to Christ's method of...

Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,—Medford

Pacific Record Herald

Christian Science adheres strictly to Christ's method of healing the sick, a method wholly spiritual; and since it is the utilization of divine power it is entirely adequate to do the work without aid from any other source. "Only through radical reliance on Truth," says Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 167), "can scientific healing power be realized." Experience has proved to the Christian Scientist the absolute necessity of sole dependence upon God as the healing power. Outside of Christian Science all systems of healing are based, more or less, upon faith in matter or in the power of the so–called human mind, while Christian Science relies wholly upon the divine Mind as the healing factor. Any attempt, therefore, to combine the purely spiritual method with other modes of healing is a divided allegiance and breaks the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Treatment by other methods can no more be combined with Christian Science treatment than oil can mix with water.

In endeavoring to preserve and practice the unadulterated truth as Jesus taught and applied it, the Christian Science church maintains simplicity in its church services by the reading of the Bible and correlative passages from Science and Health, without comment,—such a sermon being "undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and divinely authorized" (Christian Science Quarterly, p. 4). And while Christian Scientists realize the importance of taking such a radical stand, understanding the dangers of compromising and collaborating with the opposing thought of other systems, they nevertheless rejoice at every evidence of honest effort toward making greater use of God's ever available power to heal the sick as well as the sinning.

HERALD EDITOR'S NOTE.—We are glad to give space to the above communication under the head of "Timely Topics," not so much because it refers to a previous article published here, but because this article calls the attention of our readers once more to the Savior of the world. This is indeed "timely." That the Christian Scientists believe in the healing as well as the saving power of God has caused much adverse criticism from some sources; but for ourselves, we welcome any effort which has for its object the bringing of the human race nearer to the great God of the universe, regardless of who is the author of the effort. Personally, we have placed our trust in God, and like the Christian Scientists, we are not ashamed of the fact.

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