Please let me mention my satisfaction in finding in the...

George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California,—San Francisco

Christian Advocate

Please let me mention my satisfaction in finding in the article entitled "Theo-therapy," published in the August 8 issue of the Pacific Edition of the Christian Advocate, a reaching out for recognition in a degree of the power of Christianity to heal physical ills. However, I feel I should ask the privilege of correcting in your columns the misapprehension contained in the following statement in the article: "It is exceedingly unfortunate that the great Christian Science movement, which indicates that people are turning to Jesus as a healer, attempts to discredit almost entirely the work of the noble and altruistic profession of medicine."

Christian Science does not attempt to discredit the medical profession. Its adherents are really too busy with their sincere efforts to bring out the healing effects of Christianity in their lives and in the lives of those who seek their aid, to devote any time or energy to discrediting others.

While Christian Scientists do not use medicine or material means for healing, they would regard it as trespassing upon the rights of others to seek to deprive them of material medicine, if they wished for it. Mary Baker Eddy, the Leader of the Christian Science movement, has said: "A genuine Christian Scientist loves Protestant and Catholic, D.D. and M.D.,—loves all who love God, good; and he loves his enemies. It will be found that, instead of opposing, such an individual subserves the interests of both medical faculty and Christianity, and they thrive together, learning that Mind-power is good will towards men" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 4).

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