Article March 29, 1930 Issue

The sense of humor which prompted your statement in...

C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,—Walpole, Massachusetts

Times

The sense of humor which prompted your statement in your issue of February 14 regarding the safety fences now being erected by the street department of Walpole has not been overlooked. However, since the article calls a certain section of these fences "a so-called Christian Science Fence" because while the posts have been erected, the wire is there "only in imagination," and this may lead to a misunderstanding of Christian Science, I trust you will allow me space for the following;

The statement in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 447), "The sick are not healed merely by declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing that there is none," removes the practice of Christian Science from the realm of imagination to that of spiritual understanding. It was this same spiritual understanding which enabled Jesus to reply to the messengers sent by John the Baptist to inquire whether he were the Christ, by pointing to his healing works. That those works were plainly evident for the messengers to witness for themselves is indicated by Jesus' words: "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."

Mrs. Eddy perceived that the spiritual understanding which enabled Jesus to perform these mighty works was man's birthright, and she presents this in the following words on page 494 of her textbook: "It is not well to imagine that Jesus demostrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good."

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