Article March 11, 1939 Issue

It was gratifying to find in the report of a sermon delivered...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of lowa,—Mason City

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It was gratifying to find in the report of a sermon delivered in Mason City, which appeared in a recent issue of your paper, an open acknowledgment that "God's love and power remain unchanged," and that through dependence on this divine power, healing of human suffering is still available. But because the minister classified Christian Science with "mysterious incantations, magnetism, psychology, cult, newthought, and faith cure," he seriously misrepresented that Christian religion, and I should like to have space for correcting the wrong impression he conveyed to your readers in this respect.

Christian Science relies wholly on God as the healer of disease and all discord, and so has nothing in common with the schools of thought mentioned by the clergyman nor with any other teaching. It stands as the reinstatement of primitive Christian healing, and it disavows any dependence on the operation of the human mind for its accomplishments, but acknowledges divine Mind, God, as the only source of power. On the first page of her book "Rudimental Divine Science," Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, describes that Science as "The law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony."

The fact that the many thousands who have found healing through Christian Science invariably express heartfelt gratitude for the enlightened understanding of God they have gained, in addition to relief from physical suffering, is ample evidence that it was through the "love and power of God" that these abundant blessings came into their experience. It exemplifies, too, the truth of what Mrs. Eddy has written on page 147 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where we read, "This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus' healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease."

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