Article August 3, 1929 Issue

Almost any of the statements made by our critic in your...

William Hastings Adler, Committee on Publication for Hongkong, China,

Hongkong Telegraph

Almost any of the statements made by our critic in your correspondence column last night could be used as a basis for showing that he is not correctly informed and is for this reason incompetent to discuss the subject properly. For instance, he suggests that it would have been much nearer the truth if in my last letter I had told "W. G." that Christian Science, as practiced by The Mother Church, was very largely commercialized faith-cure. In point of fact, such a statement would have been completely untrue. Christian Science is not "faith-cure" as that term is commonly used. Christian Science healing is not attained through a blind belief, but through the understanding of an ever operative divine Principle.

Christian Science healing is commercialized only as Christian healing was commercialized in the time of Jesus and the disciples. As recorded in the tenth chapter of Luke, Jesus said: "Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes. . . . And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. . . . And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire." Did this commercialize their healing or prayer? Jesus felt that the disciples should be compensated. For one who is able to heal the sick by prayer, to do so and receive payment for that service no more tends to commercialize religion than paying salaries to judges tends to commercialize justice.

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