Article July 26, 1930 Issue

In a clergyman's reply to his Paris correspondent, as reported...

Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,—Harrisburg

Telegraph

In a clergyman's reply to his Paris correspondent, as reported in your issue of February 7, he gives to the latter no hope or prospect of recovery from the tubercular condition which appears to have been pronounced incurable by his physicians. In his own language the clergyman says, "I accept the sad statement that there is no chance for your recovery."

Now, while it must be conceded that even an eminent clergyman has a right thus to express his want of faith in the efficacy of his religion or that of any other religion, one may well doubt the wisdom of his doing so publicly in the face of Scriptural teaching and example to the contrary. And one may honestly wonder why he does so, or can do so, in view of the many instances of the kind that have been healed through an understanding of Christian Science, to which the eminent gentleman makes a small but very inadequate concession. There is abundant evidence that many tubercular cases have been healed after all material means have failed, by an unbiased study of the Scriptures with the aid of Mrs. Eddy's spiritual and scientific interpretations, as found in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and in her other writings, on the subject of Christian Science.

Speaking quite frankly the tendency of the reply to the Paris correspondent is simply to rob him as well as others in a similar condition of their last hope of recovery, for which there is no longer any justification.

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