Article July 2, 1932 Issue

To a question from a correspondent seeking advice and...

Miss Emily J. Jones, Committee on Publication for the State of North Carolina,—Raleigh

News and Observer

To a question from a correspondent seeking advice and comfort the answer, coming from a columnist, is certainly surprising. The correspondent says she had received from the study of Christian Science "great comfort," but after failing to be healed of appendicitis through Christian Science treatment, she submitted to a surgical operation. Since then she has "slumped" mentally and is "greatly bewildered" and "without a foundation."

When Jesus' disciples failed to heal a certain case, he did not advise them to give up his teaching and practice and to return to their former material ways, but instead to pray and fast more—abstain from the mesmerism of materiality. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 149), "If you fail to succeed in any case, it is because you have not demonstrated the life of Christ, Truth, more in your own life,—because you have not obeyed the rule and proved the Principle of divine Science." Who would advise a student who failed to work out a problem in mathematics to give up the study of mathematics? Would he not, instead, advise finding the mistake and correcting it?

May not the "bewilderment" and "darkness" of the woman's mentality have been due to an already great fear of and faith in matter, rather than faith in God; also to her effort to be at peace in an outgrown belief? Sooner or later all material means fail. Is man's remedy, then, more matter instead of an understanding of God, his divine Principle? Thousands are proving every day that Christian Science is not impossible idealism, but that it teaches how to put into operation divine law. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 167), "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized."

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