Article February 27, 1932 Issue

In a column in your issue of July 27 the view is expressed...

Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,

Saginaw Daily News

In a column in your issue of July 27 the view is expressed that it is unwise to consult healers who have not made a study of the human body and its functions. Naturally, people look to qualified physicians for such knowledge, but experience and judgment are teaching them in increasing numbers that relief from bodily as well as mental ills is to be found by turning thought away from the body to the harmonious divine Principle of all being, God. This is the reason why healing of physical disease in every form has been successfully performed through Christian Science for the past sixty-five years.

The laws of Michigan rightly protect physicians from any infringement on their methods by those untrained in medical practice. But as long as physicians fail to avail themselves in a scientific way of man's spiritual resources they have no reason to complain because thousands turn for relief to those who do, or seek to prove for themselves that an understanding of God's presence and power does heal disease, whether described as organic or functional. The good judgment and enlightenment of our people may be trusted to instruct them to discard what is detrimental, and to cling to what is beneficial.

A recent address by Dr. William D. Johnson, president of the medical society of the state of New York, contained this striking statement: "We are justly proud of the body of scientific medicine of to-day. If we could live into the next generation, we would be ashamed of it. The very ardor with which we defend it shows our suspicion of it." Almost fifty years ago, in a sermon on "Christian Healing," Mary Baker Eddy said (p. 11): "We are in the midst of a revolution; physics are yielding slowly to metaphysics; mortal mind rebels at its own boundaries; weary of matter, it would catch the meaning of Spirit.... Metaphysics requires mind imbued with Truth to heal the sick; hence the Christianity of metaphysical healing, and this excellence above other systems."

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