Article August 25, 1923 Issue

One who knows absolutely nothing of Christian Science...

Harry L. Rhodes,

Atchison Daily Globe

One who knows absolutely nothing of Christian Science naturally imagines that it is the human or carnal mind which is supposed to accomplish the healing; and, of course, cannot understand how this so-called mind can heal by "absent treatment." We answer that it cannot, because the human, carnal mind is "enmity against God." Divine Mind is not confined to limits, and it is our own false admissions that prevent us from demonstrating this great fact. In the fourth chapter of John may be found the record of the healing of the son of a certain nobleman. In the gospel according to Luke is a record of another cure, that of the servant of a centurion. Both of these cases would be considered as having received "absent treatment," since Jesus was some distance from the patients he healed. The Psalmist said, "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction." An honest and fair investigation of the truth as taught and demonstrated in Christian Science will show that it is God, or divine Mind, which fills all space and is everywhere, that heals. In her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 179), Mary Baker Eddy has said, "Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their healers, as well as those present, since space is no obstacle to Mind." When the disciples came to Jesus and said there was a case they could not heal, he said to them, "O faithless and perverse generation."

The Christian Science church, it is true, is made up mainly of former members of other denominations; but the Christian Scientist, instead of "trying to break down other churches" is endeavoring to uplift the Christ-ideal; to love his neighbor; to be meek; to keep the Ten Commandments; to obey God. He is not a Christian Scientist because his father before him was one! He knows what it means to be healed; and his investigation of that agency which has restored him was due to nothing save the desire in the human heart for some such comfort as Christian Science promises; and he yet holds the kindliest feelings toward his former religious denomination. Although he has been lifted out of wretched, desperate, hopeless sickness, he is not permitted unduly to influence any one on aught that touches his religious affiliations.

All that is required of any religion in order that its adherents may reach a high standard of morals and usefulness is that it be a religion in nature as well as in name. It must come proclaiming the kingdom of God; and there is Scriptural authority for believing that it must necessarily include the healing of the sick as well as the reformation of the sinful.

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