Article February 18, 1933 Issue

Recently a speaker who was quoted in your issue of...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,—Santa Ana

Recently a speaker who was quoted in your issue of May 26 made mistaken comments regarding passages in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and gave other wrong impressions of Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science.

Among the speaker's statements to which exception may properly be taken was his discussion of Mrs. Eddy's words (p. 359), "I have healed infidels whose only objection to this method was, that I as a Christian Scientist believed in the Holy Spirit, while they, the patients, did not." Please note that Mrs. Eddy does not say that infidels "can get the benefit" of Christian Science "without becoming Christians," as inferred by the speaker in question. She says she "healed" them. To the Christian Scientist "to heal" means not only to cure a patient's bodily ailments but also to correct wrong mental or moral conditions—in other words, to make him whole. This position agrees with a dictionary definition of the verb "heal": "To make hale, sound, or whole. . . . To restore to original purity or integrity; . . . to restore from evil." Surely a patient who was thus "healed" must have become a better man.

Manifestly, Christ Jesus had to start with people in the condition in which he found them, thence to transform them into better men and women. When he applied his spiritually mental method to correct physical and moral discords, he gave men and women a firm foundation for their adherence to Christianity; and he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Mrs. Eddy recognized that Jesus is the Way-shower for humanity, and she accepted his teachings without reservation. She utilized his spiritual method to heal sickness and sin, and taught others to do likewise; and her ministrations lifted humanity to loyal adherence to the Master. Why should the Christianity of such a service be questioned?

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