Article August 9, 1924 Issue

In a recent issue there appeared a review of a book entitled "Healing,"...

Miss Kate E. Andreae,—Brighton

Herald

In a recent issue there appeared a review of a book entitled "Healing," by the Rev. M. R. Newbolt, wherein the statement is made: "The successful cures of Christian Science, Mr. Newbolt considers, are based on a false reasoning, just as if an hypnotist could cure a patient of a headache by suggesting to him that he had no head."

Permit me to say that the cures in Christian Science are neither based on a false reasoning, such as he mentions, nor accomplished by hypnotism or suggestion, these methods being the antithesis of its teaching and absolutely excluded from its practice. The healing in Christian Science takes place as the result of following unreservedly the teachings of the Master, Christ Jesus, who was the greatest healer the world has ever known, because, in bearing witness to the truth, he required no lesser means to aid him in his holy work. His knowledge of God and of man in His image and likeness was potent enough to reform the sinner, heal the sick, and raise the dead. Christian Scientists are striving to attain the standard he set up, to follow his instructions, and to bear witness—so far as they understand it—to the truth he revealed, watching and waiting for the Mind of Christ and for the revelation of what man actually is and ever will be in the sight of God. Day by day, as prayer unfolds the facts of true being, they prove in the healing of sin and disease that Truth is true throughout all eternity, and is as available, demonstrable, and operative to-day as it was nineteen centuries ago, in accordance with the promise of Christ Jesus, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Mrs. Eddy—the one in this age to awaken mankind to that essential part of Christianity, spiritual healing—says on pages 231 and 232 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, "Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind,—planted on the Evangelist's statement that 'all things were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without Him was not anything made that was made,'—can triumph over sin, sickness, and death."

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