Article March 14, 1925 Issue

Our critic, a doctor of medicine, makes a very mistaken...

Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,—Chicago

Clinical Medicine

Our critic, a doctor of medicine, makes a very mistaken assertion when he says, "Where there is any organic trouble, there is no healing by the so-called force of Christian Science." I assume the term "so-called force," as used by the doctor, alludes to prayer. But the Scriptures teach that prayer is most effectual to heal when correctly applied. Dr. Richard S. Cabot of Boston, member of the Massachusetts General Hospital, evidently thinks it is of inestimable value as a healing agency; for, in a recent interview, he said: "I believe that prayer does cure disease. Healing comes to some individuals directly through prayer, I am sure. I use it in my practice and rely on it to-day more often than on medicine."

The many witnesses to the healing power of God, made practical through prayer in Christian Science, include those who have been healed of so-called organic diseases after such diseases have been diagnosed by one or more reputable physicians. Authenticated cases of such healings, many pronounced incurable, are published weekly and monthly in the Christian Science periodicals, and these testimonies are available to any one who desires to make an honest investigation. Summarizing his report of a failure to heal through Christian Science treatment, the critic inquires, "When will folks cease to be led by such foolishness?" This failure, as reported in the foregoing article, occurred fifteen years ago, as evidence at hand proves. Such a lapse of time places the story beyond the category of current news and well within the realm of conjecture, where it does not in any wise prove that Christian Science is "foolish" or that it fails to heal the sick. If the practice of medicine proved infallible in every case, kindly comparison might be admissible; but for a physician to deride a religion because such religion does not meet with his approval, does not dignify the medical profession. Christian Science asks only to be known by its fruits of righteousness. Such fruits more than satisfy its adherents. Because Christian Science is admitted by those who understand it to be Christian, and is proving itself to be exact Science, it will continue to furnish an increasing measure of health and happiness to those who obey its precepts and practice it understandingly.

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