Article January 27, 1940 Issue

In a recent issue a doctor is reported to have "explained...

Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Hamilton

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In a recent issue a doctor is reported to have "explained in full the cults of homeopathy, osteopathy, and touched on Christian Science and faith-healing. He showed that each and all of the cults had something in common—that they borrowed quite a lot from the orthodox medicine treatment." Will you allow me space to offer, so far as Christian Science is concerned, a correction of these statements? In the first place it is not correct to designate Christian Science as a "cult" or system of religious belief. Christian Science is Christianly scientific; it is a system of ascertained truth, based on a divine Principle, with rules for its demonstration. It is in full agreement with the teaching and works of Christ Jesus, and its treatment is the antithesis of "orthodox medicine treatment," being purely metaphysical. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has indicated how the healing work is done, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. xi), where she says: "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,

"To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised."

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