Article February 28, 1931 Issue

Will you kindly give me space to explain to your readers...

Miss Florence B. Russell, Committee on Publication for Hamphire, England,—Bournemouth

Lymington and South Hants Chronicle

Will you kindly give me space to explain to your readers that the statements about Christian Science reported in your issue of June 12 do not represent its teachings. The clergyman who preached the sermon on Lymington Hospital Sunday does not seem to have understood its method of healing, which is more and more surely making manifest the works of God; and he seems to think that Christian Scientists are taught to "do nothing and see what I [God] will do." On the contrary, Christian Science is based on the teaching and example of Jesus, who, without resorting to drugs or surgery, worked the works of God, and instructed his followers to do the same works in the same way.

Jesus understood that God is Love, that He is the only cause and creator, and that He maintains man in perfection as His own image and likeness; and he refuted the false evidence of the material senses. He healed men, not by doing nothing, but by raising his own thought and that of his patient to the contemplation of man's perfect nature. To "be still, and know that I am God" is not "doing nothing." It is still efficacious to quiet the fears of human sense while knowing confidently and with power the omnipotence, omnipresence, and love of God, "who healeth all thy diseases." It is an active effort, which does not seek to make God do something, but avails itself of the good already created and maintained by the loving Father of all.

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