Article November 21, 1925 Issue

Your able leader in an issue of the Evening News,...

Frank Savage, Committee on Publication for Nottinghamshire, England,—Nottingham

Evening News

Your able leader in an issue of the Evening News, reviewing the antipathy of doctors of the British Medical Association to curative systems which are not orthodox and in accordance with their own inclinations, alludes covertly to Christian Science, which has to-day in support of its efficacy as a remedial agent facts before which human opinion or misrepresentation are of no importance. Christian Science is not "quackery," but an exact Science, having its basis on absolute divine Principle, whose laws are subject to demonstration, even as the laws of mathematics are invariable and provable, requiring an exact knowledge of their operation to produce positive results. The highest form of healing to be understood and practiced was presented to humanity by Christ Jesus, who revealed the great fact that all causation is divinely mental; and he healed from this standpoint. His remarkable cures were the result of his correct understanding of God, who is the only cause; and until this fact is understood in Christian Science, there can be no real healing (whether the condition to be healed be functional or organic), except in human belief.

For those members of the medical profession whose purpose it is to help humanity, Christian Scientists have nothing but admiration; but the fact should not be lost sight of that a very large majority of the adherents of Christian Science are people who have sought this system of healing after medical and other systems have failed. They have turned to it as a last resort and obtained cure and health. Any failure to receive help could not be the fault of Christian Science, but the lack of a correct application of its teaching. A doctor's suggestion that legislation be provided to protect the public health could in no way offend Christian Scientists, who are scrupulous in their obedience to the laws of the land, while maintaining the right to employ the means of healing which they know to be absolute and unerring.

While healing in Christian Science should not be confused in any way with psychotherapy, or any humanly mental methods, the remarks of the associate professor of clinical medicine, University of Manitoba, made recently before the Canadian Medical Association, may prove of interest at this point, as they indicate the advance made by the medical fraternity in recognizing the all-importance of the mental factor in all physical disorders. He says, in part: "Christian Science has helped many persons suffering from diseases which to the medical practitioner had defied diagnosis. Christian Science, furthermore, has brought relief to individuals who were victims of some organic disorder, proving that psychotherapy was not solely confined to functional diseases."

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