Article August 6, 1932 Issue

Your contributor, under the heading "Adventures in Religion"...

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

Michigan Farmer

Your contributor, under the heading "Adventures in Religion" in your September 12 number, deprecates the possibility of healing through prayer. If seekers for healing through prayer should be disappointed, they may, he fears, "lose all faith in religion."

Your readers will not, I hope, take such a fear seriously. In the first place, if faith in religion could be lost because it is not accompanied by visible proofs of healing, then faith in religion would have all but disappeared centuries ago. In the second, no one who earnestly seeks healing through complete reliance on the power of the ever present, infinitely good God, Spirit, will ever be disappointed. It is faith in evil or in a limited sense of good, in finite or material means, which disappoints. One unanswerable proof of this may be seen in the remarkable growth of the Christian Science church, which "affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 583).

By all means, let those who desire to receive medical treatment have it. Christian Scientists will never seek to deprive them of it. Let us remember, however, that there are thousands who failed to find healing through medical treatment who have been restored to health through Christian Science. The promise of the Master still holds good in this test of faith: "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

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