Article August 29, 1925 Issue

Referring to a discussion of Christian Science in an address...

Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—Plainfield

Courier-News

Referring to a discussion of Christian Science in an address delivered by a clergyman, as reported in a recent issue, it is possible that a few words, in addition to what the pastor has said, may be helpful in clearing the thought of some inconsistencies under which the minister and your readers may be laboring. This minister is reported as saying of Christian Science that "the secret of its appeal lies partly in the promise of physical healing." He then goes on to say that "it claims to have made many marvelous cures, and no doubt many of them are genuine;" after which he says, "One has only to observe the crutches heaped up at Lourdes, or Ste. Anne de Beaupré, to realize that cures are quite possible for some sorts of disorder, at least, apart from medical science," evidently claiming by this statement that there are other methods of healing apart from medical science. This is true; but the healing effected through the teachings of Christian Science is entirely above and apart from any other method of cure. Mary Baker Eddy makes this statement in the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. xi): "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not super-natural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime.

"To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised."

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