Article October 13, 1928 Issue

The optimistic prospector who makes his bow in a doctor's...

Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,—Kalamazoo

Gazette

The optimistic prospector who makes his bow in a doctor's column in a recent issue is not wrong in considering those who believe in Christian Science to be optimists, even though he is somewhat at sea as to its scientific nature. Divine Science is knowledge, exact knowledge, demonstrable knowledge, knowledge based on divine Principle; such knowledge, for instance, as Christ Jesus displayed when a woman who had spent all her living on physicians, according to the gospel writers, came to him for healing. On that occasion, the Master explained very simply how the woman was healed. He said, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole."

Faith in what? Surely not in what the doctor calls "a freak healing cult." Faith, rather, in man's God-given capacity to express health rather than disease! Christian Science explains how such faith relates itself to healing through an understanding of the selfsame law or Science which Jesus lived to demonstrate. Mrs. Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 341) remains unanswerable: "Sneers at the application of the word Science to Christianity cannot prevent that from being scientific which is based on divine Principle, demonstrated according to a divine given rule, and subjected to proof."

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