Article March 12, 1938 Issue

Considerable local publicity has recently been given to a...

John Allen Northfield, Committee on Publication for Suffolk, England,—Ipswich

East Anglian Daily Times

Considerable local publicity has recently been given to a pamphlet by a clergyman, which purports to explain Christian Science. As this pamphlet contains several misleading statements, I am asking for the hospitality of your columns to correct some of these.

After admitting that Christian Science has given many people a new and healthier outlook on life, the writer goes on to say that it has no message for the poor and afflicted! The answer to this can best be furnished by the thousands who have been healed of sickness, sorrow, and lack by its means. The fact that the people who attend Christian Science churches generally appear well and happy is a splendid testimonial to its efficacy; many of them were not always so.

Some highly appreciative references may be found in Mrs. Eddy's writings to the self-sacrificing work of doctors and nurses. Christian Science has been successful in healing numberless cases found to be incurable by material means, with the result that many doctors now send patients they have been unable to cure to Christian Science practitioners. In this country an adult is free to choose his or her own method of healing, and in the case of children, Christian Scientists are most scrupulous in their observance of the law.

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