Article June 5, 1926 Issue

In a recent issue of the Providence Journal, an article...

G. Ervin Thompson, Committee on Publication for the State of Rhode Island,—Providence

Cranston News

In a recent issue of the Providence Journal, an article entitled, "Cure of Disease by Mental Treatment," by a doctor, classified Christian Science healing with new-thought and Coueism. As a complete correction was not obtainable in the Providence Journal, and a great many readers of the Cranston News are readers of the Providence Journal, the writer is grateful for this opportunity to present to the public a complete correction of the article. Christian Science has nothing in common with new-thought or Coueism. The method of Christian Science healing is not material, but spiritual, the power and presence of God to heal being relied upon entirely. Christian Science proclaims God as the only cause and creator, and teaches, as does the Bible, that all that God creates is good, and that therefore therefore there is no cause or reality apart from God and His creation. Christian Science and mental science are diametric opposites. Mrs. Eddy, in writing of these notions, which are sometimes confused with Christian Science by the uninformed, says on page 185 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that "such theories have no relationship to Christian Science, which rests on the conception of God as the only Life, substance, and intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual factor in the healing work."

Christian Science healing is not mental healing in the sense of the term used by the doctor. It is the perception and understanding of spiritual Truth, the Science of Truth. This demonstrable understanding is always efficacious, healing not only so-called nervous and functional diseases, but organic diseases as well. Christian Science practitioners to-day, contrary to the imputation of the doctor, are healing the latter as readily as the former. The doctor has a way of implying that those who go to Christian Science to get cured had nothing the matter with them; but the facts will not bear him out. The thousands whom doctors have pronounced incurable, and whom Christian Science has cured, refuse to have their healings explained away by any such device. Christian Science is bringing surcease from sorrow; it is healing sin; it is leading men and women out of infidelity and atheism and giving them an intelligent, demonstrable understanding of God. Through Christian Science people are led to read and to love the Bible. The teachings of Christian Science have been verified abundantly in the healing of all manner of disease, as well as in the reformation from sinful habits and appetites, and in the spiritual awakening testified to so often by its beneficiaries. It is unfortunate that there are people in this enlightened day who still believe that the practice of Christian Science consists of the exercise of so-called human will or thought, or the domination of one human mind by another, when in fact such is the very opposite to Christian Science. Christian Science is marching gloriously forward on its mission of uplifting humanity, preaching the gospel and healing the sick, exactly as did primitive Christianity. Christian Scientists have only sympathy and love for this doctor critic, and reverently and lovingly recommend for his consideration the sixth tenet of Christian Science, found on page 497 of Science and Health, which is as follows: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure."

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