Article July 23, 1938 Issue

In the current Church Gazette, under the caption "Physical...

Arthur E. F. Court, Committee on Publication for North Island, New Zealand,—Auckland

Church Gazette

In the current Church Gazette, under the caption "Physical Healing," is the following sentence: "Christian Scientists are not the only ones who rest their teaching on false foundations." I feel compelled to challenge this statement, because the teachings of Christian Science are the direct teachings of Christ Jesus, and these surely are not false foundations. Nowhere in the New Testament is there any instruction to practice medicine. Jesus himself never employed it or recommended it to his followers, who yet were told to "heal the sick."

As regards faith, did not our Master say, "Thy faith hath made thee whole"? If this was not "true faith," why did Jesus thus describe it, and acknowledge its effects?

Christian Science has no enmity against the medical profession, and never advises any person not to consult a reputable physician, if he or she desires. But when we have the word of Jesus that "it is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing," why should we turn to material remedies? Jesus made it perfectly clear that we cannot serve God and mammon; neither can we rely entirely upon omnipotent God, who heals all our diseases, and at the same time put our faith in inanimate, inert, material remedies. The effort to combine these two opposing loyalties results in failure.

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