Article January 8, 1938 Issue

In Stavanger Aftenblad of June 18 a doctor makes some...

Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,

Stavanger Aftenblad

In Stavanger Aftenblad of June 18 a doctor makes some remarks about Christian Science. I should like to remind this doctor that recently he declared himself ready to endorse a quotation from Dr. Carrel's book, "Man the Unknown," in connection with that author's observations on patients who have been healed by prayer of cancer and other diseases.

The doctor calls prayer a "supernatural method." But it should be, to a Christian, the most natural thing in the world to turn to prayer in all the difficulties of life. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 1), "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." The Founder of Christianity said, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven;" and in the first chapter of the book of Genesis we are told that God made man in His own image and after His own likeness: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him."

When we begin to understand a little more of what it means to say that man is created in God's image, we shall realize how little we yet know of "Man the Unknown," and then there will, as Dr. Carrel says, "open to man a new world."

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