Article March 24, 1934 Issue

The article on Christian Science and nature cure in the...

Meinrad Schnewlin, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland,—Bern (translation)

Naturheilkunde,

The article on Christian Science and nature cure in the August number needs some clarification. Christian Science recognizes not only the demand, "Thy will be done," but teaches that men should live in accordance with all the commands of Christ Jesus, who said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do." For such works surely it is necessary to have a certain measure of that Mind of which Paul writes, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." At the conclusion of the Gospel according to Mark, we are told how healings as "signs following" attended those who understood and lived according to the teachings of Jesus. The same thing occurs today through Christian Science. Christian Science is not a mere curative method which has for its sole aim the healing of bodily illness, but it is a revival of primitive Christianity, and the healings are only the outward manifestation of an inner transformation.

Certain materially-minded people may find the moral and spiritual demands of Christian Science too great, and turn their backs on it. Concentrating thought on a material sense of health is the opposite of Christian Science and by it is classed as error, along with other forms of human will, hypnotism, suggestion, sorcery, and so forth.

Did not Jesus say, "I can of mine own self do nothing," and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works"? The Father, whom the Bible also denominates Love, is the Spirit which does the works of Christian Science too, for He is the Almighty. Jesus cured the so-called incurable, and Christian Scientists today are healing similar diseases, a fact which has already been acknowledge in the public press and in medical journals by well-known doctors. Many sick people try Christian Science only when they have otherwise no prospect of healing. The adherents of this teaching come from all classes; there are poor and rich, educated and uneducated. They read the very same Bible that other Christians read, and their first tenet is (Science and Health, p. 497), "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life."

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