In your today's issue a clergyman, referring to the recently...

Leslie Burn Andreae, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,—Norwich

Eastern Daily Press

In your today's issue a clergyman, referring to the recently established Church of Healing in Brighton, is reported as having said that "spiritual healing had no relation to Christian Science nor to spiritualistic healing." In case this statement leads some of your readers to erroneous conclusions about Christian Science, may I briefly point out that in Christian Science spiritual healing is understood to be the realization of the ever-presence and all-power of God, Spirit, or Mind, the understanding and demonstration of spiritual law, the law of divine Love, the law of the unchangeable perfection of God's creation.

One quotation from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, makes this clear (p. 482): "Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease." Taking the Bible as authority, Christian Science uses the words Spirit, Mind, Truth, Love as synonyms for God. Therefore, healing as practiced by Christian Scientists is preeminently spiritual, as they rely solely on God, Spirit.

Christian Science has no relation to spiritualism, nor does it bear the slightest resemblance to spiritualistic theories of healing.

We do not "deny faith" as your report states; on the contrary, we hold that faith is a step toward spiritual understanding, and Christian Science teaches how to obtain this understanding.

We "deny pain" in the same way that the mathematician would deny that nine times nine is eighty and replace it with the truth that nine times nine is eighty-one. To the ignorant one, nine times nine is eighty may seem correct enough. So pain seems real enough to the sufferer, but it is denied, or nullified, by the understanding that in infinite perfection or God there can be no discord, no inharmony. These statements are simple logic based on spiritual law.

The purpose of the Christian Science church as stated on page 17 of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy is, "To commemorte the word and works of our Master," and to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

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