Article March 16, 1929 Issue

Kindly allow me opportunity to correct from a Christian Science...

Count Sigge Cronstedt, Committee on Publication for Sweden,

Ornskoldsviks Allehanda

Kindly allow me opportunity to correct from a Christian Science point of view an article regarding faith-healing, which was first published in Dagens Nyheter and later republished in the columns of your newspaper, in which medical doctors expressed their belief that Christian Science healing is the result of suggestion. The Bible teaches us that every Christian may receive that for which he prays to God, provided that he prays in righteousness and has faith in his prayer. The first chapter in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the chapter on Prayer, begins with these clear and trustful words: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." On the next page the author further states, "Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it."

Down through the centuries theories regarding matter have altered, and they are still changing. May not this material world of phenomena be a counterfeit, which can be changed through right thinking? Here the teachings of Christian Science come to our rescue with the explanation that only God and that which He has created can be real, in the correct meaning of eternal and unchangeable; and, further, that the creator of all things, due to the fact of His ever-presence, must be Spirit. From this it follows logically that God's creation is altogether spiritual, and that it is now and always has been perfect, as the creator Himself is perfect. To understand the truth of God's perfection, and to practice it, brings healing from disease, as well as from sin.

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