Article September 3, 1938 Issue

In a recent issue of the Advertiser there appeared an...

Stanley Sheen, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,

Rotherham Advertiser

In a recent issue of the Advertiser there appeared an interesting article on nerves. It was, however, decidedly misleading when it referred to Christian Science in the same category as "dramatic touch," "faith-healing at Lourdes," et cetera, or spoke of becoming "miraculously" better.

Although wonderful cases of healing are continually being accomplished by Christian Science, they are not miraculous, because they are the outcome of a scientific understanding of the nature of God as infinite good, and man as His image and likeness. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 494): "The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love. Jesus demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring human sense to flee from its own convictions and seek safety in divine Science. Reason, rightly directed, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the experiences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Science of man's eternal harmony breaks their illusion with the unbroken reality of scientific being."

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