Article December 22, 1928 Issue

I have read with interest your report of a meeting held...

Miss Florence B. Russell, Committee on Publication for Hampshire,—Winchester

Hampshire Observer

I have read with interest your report of a meeting held in Winchester, where an address was given on the subject of divine healing. While it is cause for gratitude that so many people are now awakened to the reality and importance of spiritual healing, it is regrettable that a preacher, who claims to be advocating it, should try to separate it in the minds of his hearers from Christian Science, which was the first teaching to proclaim the universal practicability today of that healing which Christ Jesus taught and practiced. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 55 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Truth's immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself,—when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind. The promises will be fulfilled. The time for the reappearing of the divine healing is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly all on the altar ofdivine Science, drinketh of Christ's cup now, and is endued with the spirit and power of Christian healing."

Although the speaker would seem to indorse some of the sentiments expressed by Mrs. Eddy in this passage, yet he rejects Christian Science because it does not use medical methods to aid divine power. Probably he was right when at the close of his address he said that he "did not think there was anything really akin in divine healing, as the church understood it, and Christian Science." Christian Science follows the teaching and example of Christ Jesus, who, as far as the Bible record shows, never used, nor taught his disciples to use, medical treatment; and the first religious tenet of Christian Science, as found on page 497 of Science and Health, is, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them;" and Christian Science has surely proved by its beneficent results that its understanding and practice of divine healing are efficacious and correct.

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