Article July 11, 1931 Issue

Your issue of the 23d instant publishes a dispatch from...

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

Times-Picayune

Your issue of the 23d instant publishes 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 which are in need of healing, for which purpose Christian Science as a religion is available.

Faith healing can well be considered as along the line of spiritual progress, but to term Christian Science "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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