Article December 6, 1930 Issue

In your issue of July 14 appears an article entitled "Faith Healing Charlatans"...

H. Ernest Vincent, Committee on Publication for the Province of Natal, South Africa,—Durban

Natal Mercury

In your issue of July 14 appears an article entitled "Faith Healing Charlatans" in which the writer associates the practice of Christian Science with faith healing (so called), suggestion, and other mind cures. As his statements regarding Christian Science require correction, space in your columns is respectfully requested.

Christian Scientists never attack the religious beliefs of those who differ from them, but recognize the right of the individual to choose that form of religion, and that method of healing, which he feels to be the most suitable and reliable; yet it is but right to state that the practice of Christian Science is not faith healing, as the term is generally used, nor has it anything in common with suggestion.

Christian Science treatment rests upon two basic truths which are stated in the first chapter of Genesis: first, that man as God created him is the image and likeness of his creator, hence spiritual and perfect; and, secondly, that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." From the last statement the logical deduction is that God did not create evil, and that evil, however seemingly manifested, has only a suppositional existence and is the product of wrong thinking.

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