Article December 22, 1928 Issue

In your recent issue space is given to criticisms of faith-healing...

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

Muskegon Chronicle

In your recent issue space is given to criticisms of faith-healing or divine healing, quoted from a sermon. These criticisms give a false impression of the healing work of Christian Science. So far as Christian Scientists are concerned, they are grateful to know that Christ Jesus did not accept the view that sickness is sent by God; and they are endeavoring to follow the Master's example, and to heal sickness as well as sin. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 348), Mary Baker Eddy pointedly asks: "Instead of tenaciously defending the supposed rights of disease, while complaining of the suffering disease brings, would it not be well to abandon the defence, especially when by so doing our own condition can be improved and that of other persons as well?"

Not unlike many learned men in Jesus' time, the clergyman reported in your columns is horror-struck at the thought that certain individuals should be chosen of God to practice divine healing, and that the "organized church" should be passed by in the selection. He need not be. The opportunity is freely accorded to all who acknowledge that "thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory," to heal sickness and sin, speak with new tongues, and even to raise the dead, in proportion to their understanding of the all-inclusive reality of good. It is at least ungracious to censure those who have taken the first step in this direction, merely because they have not yet attained the ultimate of Christlikeness.

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