Article November 14, 1931 Issue

Your issue of the 22d inst. publishers a dispatch from...

Arthur J. Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,—New Orleans

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Your issue of the 22d inst. publishers a dispatch from London to the effect that the Canterbury Convocation had, by a large majority, given "its approval to faith healing and asked that it be given the official sanction of the church." The dispatch further states that in discussing the resolution, "Christian Science was called fantastic as a religious faith, yet was highly praised as the greatest means of faith healing."

Kindly permit me to say for the benefit of your readers, that Christian Science does not take any halfway position in regard to its healing ministry. It does not combine material and spiritual means of healing; it takes the position, and holds consistently to it, that God needs no material aid in healing the sick or saving the sinner, and that to admit such to be the case would be placing a limit on omnipotence. Furthermore, Christian Science declares that there are a great many things besides a sick body that are in need of healing, for which purpose Christian Science as a religious faith is available.

To term Christian Science as a religious faith "fantastic" because it takes an advanced position—and one in entire accord with the teachings of the Master as recorded in the New Testament—is unjustifiable.

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