Article April 4, 1925 Issue

The Bishop of Manchester, in giving his conclusion on...

Arthur F. Algie, Committee on Publication for China—Tientsin

Peking & Tientsin Times

The Bishop of Manchester, in giving his conclusion on the subject of spiritual healing, published in your issue of recent date, says that the practice of Christian Science has brought incalculable benefit to many people, though its theories seem to him singularly imbecile. If the teachings of Christian Science were such as the Bishop believes them to be, they could not have benefited innumerable people, for as Christ Jesus has said, "The tree is known by his fruit."

Will you please allow me to say that any one who understands how Christian Science operates, knows that it has nothing whatever to do with suggestion, which is merely one belief driving out another belief. Nor is the practice of Christian Science based upon what is generally meant by faith. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 297), "Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine." Christian Science is based on the Scriptural declaration, "I am the Lord, and there is none else," and it is proving that the truth, spiritually discerned, can be demonstrated to be true in the experience of humanity. The healing that follows is the result of the recognition of divine law as ever present and ever operative.

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