Article September 11, 1926 Issue

A doctor, in his review of "Medical Follies," before the...

Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,—Topeka

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A doctor, in his review of "Medical Follies," before the Sunday Reading Club at the Sheldon Community house, referred to Christian Science among the "modern systems of healing" which "depart from scientific medical orthodoxy." The discussion as reported in your recent issue is misleading in so far as Christian Science is concerned. The practice of Christian Science is based on immortal Mind, the divine Principle of man, and its healing is accomplished through spiritual means alone. Hence, in Christian Science practice it is not necessary for "one individual to place confidence in another" in order "confidently" to expect to "receive help." Neither is it necessary to have faith in this Science. Many have been healed without the aid of a practitioner, simply by reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Under the marginal heading "Personal confidence," on pages 358 and 359 of this book, a question is asked and answered by Mrs. Eddy: "Is it likely that church-members have more faith in some Christian Scientist, whom they have perhaps never seen and against whom they have been warned, than they have in their own accredited and orthodox pastors, whom they have seen and have been taught to love and to trust? Let any clergyman try to cure his friends by their faith in him. Will that faith heal them? Yet Scientists will take the same cases, and cures will follow. Is this because the patients have more faith in the Scientist than in their pastor?" Confidence in Christian Science is gained as patients recognize the help they derive from its beneficent influence.

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