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According to a recent report in the Midland Free Press, a speaker before the Midland Kiwanis Club "questioned the scientific basis behind Christian Science" and referred to this teaching as "quackery."
"Quack" is defined, in part, as "a boastful pretender to medical skill." Christian Science is not such a pretender. It does not depend upon medicine or medical health laws. The spiritual method of healing practiced by Christian Science and the material method taught by the medical schools are poles apart. The Science of Christianity is as widely separated from medical science today, as it was from the nostrums of the first century, when Christ Jesus demonstrated scientific, spiritual healing on the hills of Judea and on the shores of Galilee. No one can say that he was a "pretender to medical skill." Neither is Christian Science today, for it is the restoration of the spiritual method of the Master.
Although Luke had been a physician, there is no record that he returned to the practice of medicine after becoming a follower of Jesus, and, furthermore, in the Acts of the Apostles, a book generally attributed to Luke, the author draws attention to the power and efficacy of the spiritual method taught by the Master. Similar results today are following the restoration of the healing methods of Christ Jesus through the teachings of Christian Science. A number of highly respected physicians have, through observation and study, become so convinced of the efficacy of Christian Science as to give up their former profession for the practice of the latter.
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September 23, 1939 issue
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"Dwelling in 'the secret place'"
NATALIE G. FORCE
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The Ninth Commandment
RAYMOND D. HEINE
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Our Sunday School
ALINE PFISTER
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Promptness
WILLIAM HALE COOMBER
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Love's Resurrection
RUBY M. APPEL
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Proving the Truth
JOSEPHINE DEMAS
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The Lighthouse and the Light
LINDEN E. JONES
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A Prayer
MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE
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A correspondent writing in a recent issue on the subject...
Lt.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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According to a recent report in the Midland Free Press,...
James W. Fulton, Committee on Publication for Ontario, Canada,
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I have noted an article in a recent issue, and inasmuch...
Clair R. Robison, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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I wish to thank you and your collaborator sincerely for...
Marcel G. Silver, Committee on Publication for France,
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The Characteristics of a Christian
Duncan Sinclair
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"The symbol of Life and Love"
Evelyn F. Heywood
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The Lectures
with contributions from Hermann S. Hering, Marga Thiele, Paul A. Harsch, Carrie E. Collings, Peter V. Ross, Arthur Albert Seibert, Charles V. Winn, Ruby Moore, John Randall Dunn, Mamie H. Greene
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I have always been encouraged by my first experience...
Alan A. Doble
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Before learning of Christian Science I went through...
Martha D. Lawrence
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Words cannot express my ever-increasing gratitude for...
Frances R. Kleine
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With a joyful heart and with great gratitude I...
Grete Neumaier
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Deepest gratitude compels me to testify to my healings...
Margot G. Letts with contributions from Arthur Letts, Jr.
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Christian Science has opened a door which had been...
Henry E. Carlin, Jr.
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I took up the study of Christian Science some thirty...
Alice Heavenridge
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Twenty-one years ago I read the Christian Science textbook,...
Eleanor S. Davey
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This Is Peace
F. INA BURGESS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from J. L. Newland, R. E. L. Strider, H. R. Ragg, S. Dallas McNeil, William D. Cissna, Reynold E. Blight