Article July 9, 1938 Issue

In your issue of October 6, a correspondent tells of a lady...

Edgar G. Harris, Committee on Publication for South Island, New Zealand,—Dunedin

Otago Daily Times

In your issue of October 6, a correspondent tells of a lady who suffered from a trying affliction, was miserable and difficult to live with, but who through the ministrations of Christian Science lost her misery and became peaceful, happy, and contented. Your correspondent then proceeds to make some incorrect statements regarding Christian Science. I should be glad of space to reply to these points.

Christian Science is not, as your correspondent states, "Buddhism under another name." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp. 118, 119): "The doctrine of Buddha, which rests on a heathen basis for its Nirvana, represents not the divinity of Christian Science, in which Truth, or Christ, finds its paradise in Spirit, in the consciousness of heaven within us—health, harmony, holiness, entirely apart from limitations, which would dwarf individuality in personality and couple evil with good."

A healing such as is acknowledged above is possible today through the realization of the ever-presence of the Christ, Truth. It is recorded that Jesus, when accused of casting out devils by Beelzebub, replied, "And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?" He then added: "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." Jesus was here accused of using hypnotism, but he was able to silence his adversaries by his works as well as his words. Jesus, the great Way-shower, left this promise, which is as vital today as when it was uttered, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Christian Science accepts this promise literally. It furthermore elucidates that in this passage Jesus was speaking to his followers throughout all time, and not alone to his immediate disciples, otherwise he would have said "you," not "them." So Christian Science, accepting Jesus' words, expects signs to follow "them that believe," throughout all time, including the present.

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