Article November 14, 1931 Issue

At the recent graduation exercises of the Warren A. Candler Hospital...

Merrill M. Hutchinson, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,—Savannah

Evening Press

At the recent graduation exercises of the Warren A. Candler Hospital in Savannah, a clergyman, in his talk to the nurses, touched upon "the healing question." In his allusions to Christian Science this clergyman, though he gave to this "cult" some slight credit, yet, through his misunderstanding of the fundamental facts about Christian Science, gave out erroneous impressions which I wish to correct by giving your readers a truer conception of our new-old religion.

Christian Science is firmly based on the Bible. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy gives as one of the Tenets of Christian Science the following (p. 497): "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." Christ Jesus is acknowledged to be the Way-shower. Just how did Jesus show his followers the way? Matthew tells us, in the fourth chapter of his Gospel, that Jesus went about, not only teaching and preaching, but also "healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." In the ninth chapter, Matthew makes a similar but stronger statement, when he says that Jesus healed "every sickness and every disease." His healings surely cannot be explained from a medical or material standpoint. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 3): "Jesus' healing was spiritual in its nature, method, and design. He wrought the cure of disease through the divine Mind, which gives all true volition, impulse, and action; and destroys the mental error made manifest physically, and establishes the opposite manifestation of Truth upon the body in harmony and health."

Jesus once spoke of a woman whom he loosed from infirmity, as one "whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years." To-day, multitudes are being loosed from their infirmities through the same spiritual healing power that Jesus exercised and transmitted, not only to his immediate disciples, but to all of his adherents who strive to know the truth and to practice it.

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