In a recent issue of the Irrigator an item is quoted from...

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In a recent issue of the Irrigator an item is quoted from the Medical Herald which, in substance, attempts to formulate the answers exponents of various healing systems would make to one seeking relief from backache. The Christian Scientist is represented as telling the patient that "it don't ache." While the item is written ostensibly in a humorous vein, in so far as Christian Science is concerned, it involves an unjust criticism such as is occasionally made either by those who are unacquainted with Christian Science, or by those who purposely misrepresent it. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, anticipating such misapprehension and possible misrepresentation, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 460) writes: "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. ... If Christian healing is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a tedious mischief-maker. Instead of scientifically effecting a cure, it starts a petty crossfire over every cripple and invalid, buffeting them with the superficial and cold assertion, 'Nothing ails you.'" Christian Jesus did not tell the one with the withered hand that nothing ailed him; but he restored the withered hand to normality, thus proving that in truth man is never impaired, crippled, nor diseased.

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