Article November 21, 1925 Issue

It was intimated in your issue of recent date that the...

Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Greenfield

Daily Reporter

It was intimated in your issue of recent date that the practice of Christian Science is the "practice of medicine." This is a mistake. There is no similarity between the two modes of practice. Christian Science is purely spiritual; it does not require physical diagnosis of disease, nor does it resort to or permit the use of material remedies.

Mrs. Eddy did not "send out her followers full-fledged healers in twelve days." It is true that she taught classes in Christian Science; but some students taught in those classes spent years in study and preparation before they were qualified for acceptance in Mrs. Eddy's classes. Every successful Christian Science practitioner must, at great self-sacrifice and consecration, spiritually prepare himself for the holy work of healing the sick. Each must strive daily to overcome the world, the flesh,—all evil,—and live in harmony with God. In the measure that the practitioner does this is he able to perform the works which Jesus said they "that believe" should do.

Mrs. Eddy says in her book "Christian Healing" (p. 14): "The preparation for a metaphysical practitioner is the most arduous task I ever performed. You must first mentally educate and develop the spiritual sense or perceptive faculty by which one learns the metaphysical treatment of disease; you must teach them how to learn, together with what they learn." The above statement is followed later (p. 16) with this admonition: "See to it, O Christian Scientists, ye who have named the name of Christ with a higher meaning, that you abide by your statements, and abound in Love and Truth, for unless you do this you are not demonstrating the Science of metaphysical healing."

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