Article December 18, 1926 Issue

Christian Scientists are appreciative of the kindliness of...

Robert G. Steel, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,—Detroit

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Christian Scientists are appreciative of the kindliness of the references to their religious beliefs contained in the reply to a query in the column "Everyday Questions," and printed in your recent issue. Since many of the impressions conveyed to your readers are erroneous, however, space is requested for a brief reply. Christian Science is not based on an "esoteric creed," unless the precepts and example of Christ Jesus can be placed in that category. Its teaching rests solely on the Bible and on the words and works of the Master. The healing work of Christian Science is carried on in obedience to the imperative command of Jesus to his followers to "preach the gospel," "heal the sick," and in fulfillment of his promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Nor is this healing work limited to any particular class of illness. So-called organic disease, as well as that considered as of a purely functional nature, yields to the ministrations of Christian Science. It is not recorded that Jesus asked the nature of the ailment he was called upon to heal, nor that he ever employed material means to aid him, since he knew that "with God all things are possible."

Jesus' ability to heal was the natural result of his understanding of God, and of man's relationship to God as God's spiritual image and likeness. It is this same understanding, taught in Christian Science, and available to all Christians, which makes the work of spiritual or Christian healing successful in our day. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes this clear on page 494 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she writes, "It is not well to imagine that Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good."

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