Article September 5, 1925 Issue

With no desire to be controversial, I am asking your kind...

Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,—Omaha

Daily News

With no desire to be controversial, I am asking your kind permission to comment on the remarks of a clergyman to the effect that spiritual healing does not work. He says he cannot accept quotations from any source in support of the effectiveness of spiritual healing. I believe the followers of Christ generally will accept the Bible as authority for the fact that Christ Jesus and others of record there did heal the sick, cleanse the sinners, and raise the dead through spiritual means alone. Christ Jesus and some of his followers certainly proved spiritual healing to be a reality, and that it does work. According to Christian Science, the reasonable conclusion is that mortals do not manifest the understanding and obedience necessary to demonstrate the full possibilities of spiritual healing, or, in other words, to experience the natural effects of the operation of the law of God, good.

In behalf of Christian Science I wish to say that through the means recommended by the Master—and it is purely spiritual in operation—tens of thousands have been healed in our time and serve as living witnesses of the power of God to heal the sick. In the face of these proofs in support of Bible teaching, the question of the reality and availability of spiritual healing is substantially undebatable. It seems inconsistent to quote from the Bible in support of the Golden Rule, eternal life, the overcoming of sin, and so on, and yet be unwilling to believe what is given there on the subject of spiritual healing. If one believes in the resurrection of the dead without seeing the process or proof with his eyes, why should it be difficult to acknowledge the redemption from disease by the same means? On the subject of healing, is the Bible always as readily believed as is our contradictory medical literature?

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