Article October 2, 1926 Issue

In your recent issue there appeared a report of a very...

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

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In your recent issue there appeared a report of a very interesting lecture by the chairman of the Guild of Health, entitled "Christianity and Spiritual Healing." Therein he spoke at some length on Christian Science, giving tribute thereto by saying he thought we owed a debt to Christian Scientists for having brought the healing question to the front, and for having cured many people who would not otherwise have been cured. He, however, gave it as his opinion that Christian Scientists have mixed it up with much that is deplorable. It appeared that we could not be Christian Scientists unless we believed that God knew nothing about this world; that if we were ill He did not know of it; and that He did not even know there had been a war! We should therefore be glad if you would kindly allow us to state what Christian Science teaches on these points. Christian Science is engaged in bringing to notice the fact that the human or carnal mind's imperfect concepts—our present world, with all its ills, diseases, wars, et cetera—are very far removed from that which Deity knows of His creation—of man's real being and experience. It is these unsatisfactory, sinful, fleeting world-concepts — the phenomena of the carnal mind —of which, Christian Science teaches, God can take no cognizance. Christ Jesus, the greatest herald of Truth the world has ever known, brought into human experience the revelation of the Father's will for His children; and Christian Scientists understand that it was his exact knowledge of God and His laws, his perception and recognition of invincible actualities, which made him the Redeemer and enabled him so naturally to dispel the world's ills—sin, disease, and death. He taught that to find the truth about God and His ideas is to transform human concepts and bring salvation to humanity. He presented "the glad tidings of the kingdom of God" —God's viewpoint—to the world; and consequently inexhaustible power was given him with which to heal and save.

Thus salvation, as understood in Christian Science, is the discernment of what Deity knows; and proportionately as the divine concept of being dawns on the individual and on the world, the woes, wars, diseases, and mortality of mankind, shadows imposed by ignorance of God, will disappear, even as the morning appearing in the east dispels the darkness of the night. Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 260 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Through many generations human beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as the only true conception of being." Christian Scientists do not believe at present that medical knowledge is entirely unnecessary, as this critic avers. They have found, however, in the healing of disease, which in many cases had defied medical skill, that Christ Jesus' method of sole reliance on God is as efficacious now as it was centuries ago. Taking with them, so far as they understand it, the knowledge of the Son of God, the Christ, they are experiencing the substantiation of the promise, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." The Saviour's method of healing, Christian Scientists understand, will remain after all materiel ways and means have passed away.

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