Article June 11, 1927 Issue

A contributor to a recent edition of your paper, writing...

Thomas C. Hollingshead, Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho,

Reporter

A contributor to a recent edition of your paper, writing on the subject of "miracles," has chosen to express publicly some personal doubt as to the healing experienced through the ministration of Christian Science; and for the purpose only of correcting a wrong impression that has been given your readers, I ask the privilege of a little space in your paper.

There is no longer any occasion to doubt that cures are accomplished through Christian Science. In nearly every community are persons who have been healed through its ministration; and quite often these persons have been healed of ailments which have been unsuccessfully handled by the best local physicians and by specialists. The periodicals of the Christian Science organization in every issue carry testimonies of persons from nearly every quarter of the globe, of healing of all manner of disease—testimonies which are strictly verified before being published, so that anyone desiring to know the truth about this point has only to read; and no fair-minded person can do otherwise than thank God that another means of relieving the suffering of humanity has been given to men.

Christian Scientists do not quarrel with the healing work of any sect or school. They know well that there is employment for every system. Nor do Christian Scientists consider the healings brought about through the better understanding of the Bible, which they acquire through the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, as "miracles," or so speak of them. In writing on this point in the Preface of the book just referred to, Mrs. Eddy says (p. xi): "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural."

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