Article December 31, 1927 Issue

Casting a public slur upon the good name of a religion...

Frank C. Ayres, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,

Rockport Democrat

Casting a public slur upon the good name of a religion through a church notice and invitation to attend a sermon opposing its teachings, as was done by a minister through the columns of your paper recently, will not appeal strongly to your fair-minded readers.

When Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was on the very brink of death she was forced to turn in prayer to the Bible for hope of continued life. In speaking of her recovery, Mrs. Eddy says: "Even to the homœopathic physician who attended me, and rejoiced in my recovery, I could not then explain the modus of my relief. I could only assure him that the divine Spirit had wrought the miracle—a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with divine law" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 24). Mrs. Eddy put her rediscovery of the Christ-healing to every conceivable test before she gave it to the world. Many have come into Christian Science after an experience similar to the "woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any," and have received healing through prayer. Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." He did not limit the power of the truth (the true understanding of God, and of man in His image and likeness) to the healing of sin. He said, speaking to his disciples, "Heal the sick." Jesus' disciples did not heal every discord, as Jesus had done, because they lacked understanding. But should they be criticized for relying upon Jesus' teachings for healing when they themselves had proved them to be more uniformly successful in healing all manner of disease than any other method? Christian Scientists rely upon their religion for healing, not because they are deluded or fooled, but because for them it has been proved the most efficacious healing process known.

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