Article December 19, 1925 Issue

In the Evening Argus of recent date a bishop is reported...

Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,—Brighton

Sussex Daily News

In the Evening Argus of recent date a bishop is reported to have declared before the House of Clergy in London recently that "it was because the church had neglected the subject of spiritual healing that the heresy of Christian Science had flourished." Heresy is defined as "religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church," and a heretic as "one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion." If we go back far enough,—in fact, to the second and third centuries after Christ,—we find that spiritual healing flourished in the church as an indispensable element of Christianity. Towards the end of the third century, possibly, the opposition to the standards of the church inaugurated by Jesus entered, and spiritual healing was lost. The question arises, Can that be called a heresy which has restored to humanity the element so necessary to its well-being, the healing through spiritual means alone of the sick and suffering? If so, to what is Christian Science a heresy—to Jesus the Christ, who taught his followers to heal the sick in his name, or to the established forms of religion, which have neglected this essential service?

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