Article March 22, 1930 Issue

A recent issue of your valuable paper contained a report...

Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for Somerset, England,

Shepton Mallet Journal

A recent issue of your valuable paper contained a report of a sermon in which a divine ridiculed faith-healing and Christian Science. I shall therefore be grateful if you will allow me to reply from the point of view of Christian Science.

It is astounding that a professed follower of the Master should endeavor to hold up to ridicule those who are obeying our Lord's command to heal the sick as well as reform the sinner. If one's faith in and understanding of God are insufficient to carry out this important part of the Christian ministry, one should at least have respect for those who have the higher faith and are proving it by their works. Further, the healing of the sick by spiritual means is not "a fashionable craze," as stated by the clergyman; it is at least as old as Christianity, and, as a matter of history, was practiced by the early Christians for nearly three hundred years after the ascension. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 342): "He that decries this Science does it presumptuously, in the face of Bible history and in defiance of the direct command of Jesus, 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel,' to which command was added the promise that his students should cast out evils and heal the sick."

I should like, further, to point out that Christian Science has nothing in common with occultism or any such vagaries of the human mind; on the contrary, Christian Science is the understanding and application of the fixed, ever operative laws of God, which, like the Christ, are "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Moreover, Christian Science substantiates this claim by furnishing the proofs demanded by Christ Jesus when he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" and, "These signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

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