Article April 8, 1933 Issue

Under the heading "Thirty Years Ago" an article was...

W. Archibald Wallace, Committee on Publication—for the State of West Virginia,

Morgantown Post

Under the heading "Thirty Years Ago" an article was recently republished in the Post in which the writer said, "Fasting is not a huge joke, or an advertising scheme, or a vagary of some such phantasmic system as Christian Science." The author was correct in stating that Christian Science has nothing in common with fasting, which does not enter into its practice as a means of restoring health. In fact, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written on page 221 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "God never decreed disease,—never ordained a law that fasting should be a means of health. Hence semi-starvation is not acceptable to wisdom, and it is equally far from Science, in which being is sustained by God, Mind."

Christian Science is not a "phantasmic system." There is nothing spectral, illusive, or unreal about it, for it is founded directly upon the teachings of Christ Jesus and the lives and works of the prophets and apostles. Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Thus he indicated the reality of the truth he taught and practiced. On page 109 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy states: "Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea. This great fact is not, however, seen to be supported by sensible evidence, until its divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and thus proved absolute and divine. This proof once seen, no other conclusion can be reached."

That Christian Scientists are proving the Principle of their religion to be absolute and divine by healing the sick and reforming the sinner, thus bringing peace of mind and body to great numbers of people throughout the world, is indicated by the remarkable growth of their movement during the past years. At the recent Annual Meeting in Boston, it was announced that The Mother Church had two thousand five hundred and ninety-two branch churches and societies and forty-two university or college organizations. The multitudes thus represented are daily demonstrating the great fact that the words of Christ Jesus have not passed away, and that they are just as powerful and available today as when he dwelt among men.

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