Article April 25, 1931 Issue

In a cable dispatch which appeared in your issue of...

Philip King, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,—Washington

Herald

In a cable dispatch which appeared in your issue of January 23 you report a meeting of the high members of the Church of England on the subject of faith healing. While some of the references made to the teachings of Christian Science are accurate and kindly, others are in need of explanation and correction. In order that your readers may not be confused or misled by the references to Christian Science as "faith healing" I would call their attention to what Mary Baker Eddy says on the subject in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science (p. 297), "Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine." Healing through blind faith is illusory and transitory, while healing through Christian Science, a purely spiritual method, is permanent and lasting.

It was also reported that one of the bishops attacked Christian Science as being founded on a "fantastic theory." If the teachings of Christ Jesus and of his disciples and apostles can be called fantastic, then we are content to have Christian Science so classified, for it is founded in its entirety on the teachings of the Bible. It is true that Christian Science teaches there is no pain in matter, but let us see how Christian Science regards matter. The Bible says that God created man in His image and likeness; likewise, all that He created was good. Mrs. Eddy says in "the scientific statement of being" in Science and Health (p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual."

False belief, such as that there is pain in matter, is but the result of wrong thinking, and as Paul says, "the carnal mind is enmity against God." This wrong thinking of pain in matter is blotted out by the understanding that God never created it, and that it has neither reality nor place in the divine plan.

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