Article September 11, 1926 Issue

In your recent issue there appears an article on "Faith Healing,"...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—Canterbury, England

Kentish Observer

In your recent issue there appears an article on "Faith Healing," in which the writer says that Christian Science advances "the extraordinary dogmatic view that disease is nonexistent except in the mind of the sinner." The teaching of Christian Science on this subject is presented very clearly on page 411 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, where she says, "The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin." God is not the creator of sin, disease, or death; and as the Bible teaches that He is the only creator, these conditions can have only a seeming origin. When this is discovered through the teachings of Christian Science, one is enabled to get at the so-called cause of disease, which is always mental, and destroy it with the spiritual understanding of the truth of being, in fulfillment of the injunction of our Master, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

The world is awakening fast to the mental nature of disease, and it is recognizing that since the carnal mind, which is "enmity against God," is the source of disease, the remedy must come from the divine Mind, the Mind that was in Christ Jesus. Hence it is in the proportion that one gains this Mind that one is able to overcome, through spiritual understanding, the belief in sin and disease. The millions throughout the civilized world to-day who have been healed of all manner of disease and sin by this understanding of the Christ are a mighty evidence that Christianity is again fulfilling the requirements demanded by Christ Jesus, when he said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

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