Article May 3, 1930 Issue

How history repeats itself! When Christ Jesus healed all...

M. S. Temple Hill, Committee on Publication for the Province of Quebec,—Montreal, Canada

Daily Star

How history repeats itself! When Christ Jesus healed all kinds of disease by spiritual means, the leaders of the church of those days attributed his power to the devil, and openly accused him of being in league with Satan. Now comes a certain clergyman inveighing against spiritual healing and intimating that the churches that sponsor it are dealing in "occult supernaturalism" (whatever that may be), and have reverted to the "barbarism of the middle ages." At any rate, that is what the cabled synopsis of his recent utterances, as reported in the Daily Star of October 31, credits him with saying.

The Rt. Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, in his book "Essays in Christian Politics" (written when he was Bishop of Manchester), wrote: "There is no doubt that we have in the church neglected the connection that does exist between faith and health, and it is largely because of that that Christian Science, for example, has been able to gain so many adherents; for the practice of Christian Science has brought incalculable benefit to many people." And the Protestant Episcopal Church Conference, held at Washington, District of Columbia, adopted the report (made after six years' study) of a special commission declaring that "Christian healing has passed beyond the stage of experiment and its value cannot be questioned;" that spiritual healing has become the "belief and the practice of a large and rapidly increasing number of persons;" and that "while faith in any supposed remedy produces some effect, vital faith in God, as revealed to Christ, is followed by results which are more sure, more lasting, and of a more evidently spiritual character."

Spiritual healing, or healing by prayer as practiced in the Christian Science church, is an everyday fact which cannot be denied.

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