Article February 19, 1927 Issue

The statement of a doctor, reported in your recent issue,...

Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,

Calumet News

The statement of a doctor, reported in your recent issue, includes an erroneous inference pertaining to Christian Science. It implies that Christian Science is in some way similar to, or may be classified with, the teachings and practices of certain material methods of treating sickness, and with what is commonly termed "faith healing." This is a mistake. Christian Science is a religion, and its mode of healing is demonstrable Science, based upon the law of God, infinite Mind, as revealed in the Scriptures and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. Consequently, Christian Science should not be considered as a material system in competition with or opposed to medical practice. Its spirituality completely separates it from any such method or agency. As a religion it supplies the spiritual needs of its students, demonstrates man's real relationship to God, and thus lifts the individual out of the bondage of evil, healing his sickness and sin.

Christian Science is more than a "faith cure." Christian Science, while giving full power and recognition to faith, goes farther and founds its teachings and practice on spiritual understanding. As Mrs. Eddy says: "The restoration of pure Christianity rests solely on spiritual understanding, spiritual worship, spiritual power" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 152); and she also writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 23): "Faith, if it be mere belief, is as a pendulum swinging between nothing and something, having no fixity. Faith, advanced to spiritual understanding, is the evidence gained from Spirit, which rebukes sin of every kind and establishes the claims of God."

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