Article October 17, 1931 Issue

In the able article "Something Radically at Fault,"...

Mrs. Mary S. Cowan, Committee on Publication for the State of South Carolina,—Greenville

Greenville County Observer

In the able article "Something Radically at Fault," published in the Observer of March 20, I regret to note that the writer steps far aside to misrepresent unkindly a well-known religion. He states that the Christian Scientist tries to cure by saying to the sufferer: "You imagine you are sick. Stop thinking and talking about being sick, and imagine you are well, and you will be all right."

Such a method is plainly rebuked on page 460 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, where we read: "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being. If Christian healing is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a tedious mischief-maker. Instead of scientifically effecting a cure, it starts a petty crossfire over every cripple and invalid, buffeting them with the superficial and cold assertion, 'Nothing ails you.'"

To-day, as in Jesus' time, the physical healing accomplished by Christian Science results not from the effect of one so-called human mind over another, nor by suggestion or will-power, but from the operation of the divine Principle, Love, which heals both sin and disease. These works are the sign of Immanuel, or "God with us."

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