Article May 26, 1934 Issue

In your issue of October 23 you report a bishop as saying,...

B. Tatham Woodhead, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Liverpool

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In your issue of October 23 you report a bishop as saying, with reference to Christian Science, "To neglect what God has given us and then to pray to Him to help us in our sickness is blasphemy."

In Jesus' time there were those who used and practiced the material methods of healing then believed in. But Jesus used none of these methods. Yet the sick were healed in answer to his prayers. Would the bishop say that Jesus' prayers were blasphemous? Neither are the humble and effectual prayers of Christian Scientists blasphemous. If they were, God would not answer them as it is evident that He does.

The bishop also says that Christian Science is a heresy from the religious point of view as well as from the medical. It is easy to brand as heresy views which differ from one's own. Many of the views held by the bishop's own church today were considered to be heresy not many years ago. The Master's test for a Christian was, "By their fruits ye shall know them." And Christian Scientists are prepared to stand by that test.

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