Article October 15, 1927 Issue

Permit me to answer some statements made in your recent...

Philip King, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,—Washington

Herald

Permit me to answer some statements made in your recent issue in the "To-day" column, where the writer after stating that "mind has power over matter as Christian Scientists allege," goes on to urge that "mind over matter" be not pushed too far in cases of cancer, abscess, and broken bones, especially if there is a good doctor near. In the first place the writer makes the common mistake of confusing the human mind with the divine Mind, or God, as the agency in Christian Science healing. Christian Scientists do not claim to heal by the human or carnal mind, which is "enmity against God," as the Bible tells us. This is the very opposite to what is found in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, and the other writings of Mary Baker Eddy. Since matter and mortal mind are one, and the healing is accomplished by the divine Mind, or God, organic as well as functional diseases are healed in Christian Science.

Authenticated cases of the healing of all manner of disease, including cancer, broken bones, and abscesses, are testified to at Wednesday evening meetings all over the world. Christian Scientists, realizing that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p.468), are content to rely on the healing power of God. Since the writer has said in some cases not to push mind over matter too far, let us see what some of our present-day doctors have to say about Christian Science. "There is no question but that a great many people have been made more useful citizens by the doctrine of Christian Science." This statement was made by Dr. Hugh Cabot of the Medical School of the University of Michigan. Dr. Charles Hunter of Winnipeg, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Manitoba, said before the Canadian Medical Association: "Christian Science has helped many persons suffering from diseases which to the medical practitioner had defied diagnosis. . . . Furthermore, it has brought relief to individuals who were victims of some organic disorder."

While the healing of sickness is a part of Christian Science, let us not overlook what Mrs. Eddy has to say about healing sin. She writes (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 2): "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin; and this task, sometimes, may be harder than the cure of disease; because, while mortals love to sin, they do not love to be sick."

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