Article September 6, 1930 Issue

A clergyman's reply to his Paris correspondent in your...

Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,—Roanoke

World-News

A clergyman's reply to his Paris correspondent in your issue of February 11 not only betrays a lack of knowledge of the practical effects of Christian Science, as evidenced in physical healing, but it actually denies the power of that vital element which animates the whole thread of Bible narrative, namely, the ability of spiritual power to triumph over material resistance. If he does not believe that a spiritual state of consciousness can protect the human body from the injurious effects of fire, water, and disease germs, how can he accept the Scriptural accounts of Moses' control over the waters of the Red Sea, the deliverance of the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace, and the healing work accomplished by the prophets, by Christ Jesus and his disciples, and by the early Christian church for about three hundred years after the ascension?

Christian Science has come to restore to Christianity its lost element of healing; and Christian Scientists, in proportion to their understanding, are proving that the harmful effects of fire, water, and disease germs can be checked and nullified, not so much by "emphatic denials" as by the realization of the all-powerful, protecting presence of God. For nearly three thousand years men and women have been strengthened and comforted in times of danger and distress by a passage in the forty-third chapter of Isaiah: "Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour." Such a promise is an assurance of the power of spiritual thinking to protect man, mentally and physically, from danger; and as Mary Baker Eddy has stated on page 139 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter."

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