Article October 22, 1927 Issue

The headlines of an item appearing in a recent issue...

Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—Bridgeton

Daily Pioneer

The headlines of an item appearing in a recent issue read: "Pastor Attacks Christian Scientists and Healers when Addressing Local Nurses." In order that your readers may not be misled concerning the teachings of Christian Science, please permit me to submit a brief explanation. The pastor is reported as having said, "What is called divine healing I have absolutely no use for." The healing that Christ Jesus accomplished was in proof or demonstration of the divine power and presence, and he told all his followers to preach the gospel and heal the sick. He did not recommend, nor did he resort to, any material means whatsoever. Mary Baker Eddy, through an earnest search of the Scriptures, discovered the method by which the sick were healed through the divine power and presence, and set forth this method in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She also established the Christian Science movement with the idea of reinstating primitive Christianity, which included the healing of the sick. In this connection Mrs. Eddy states on page 136 of the above-mentioned textbook: "Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning." The pastor characterized Christian Science as unchristian. In view of the fact that already hundreds of thousands of persons have been healed and sinners reformed through the ministration of Christian Science, it is scarcely fair for anyone who has not tested it to characterize this Science as unchristian. Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 22): "That Christian Science is Christian, those who have demonstrated it, according to the rules of its divine Principle,—together with the sick, the lame, the deaf, and the blind, healed by it,—have proven to a waiting world. He who has not tested it, is incompetent to condemn it; and he who is a willing sinner, cannot demonstrate it."

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