Article August 1, 1942 Issue

From Letters, Substantially As Published

In an article which appeared in...

James Perry

Heimskringla

[James Perry, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada, in Heimskringla, Winnipeg (translation)]

In an article which appeared in a recent issue of Heimskringla under the caption of "Skottulaekningar Nutimans," Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, were referred to in a manner which needs correction.

The statement that Christian Science stands midway between medical science and religion is not in accord with its teachings. Christian Science teaches its students to rely entirely upon God for healing as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, who according to Scriptural records did not resort to the use of drugs or hygiene in his healing work, neither did he recommend them to others. Jesus healed all manner of disease and discord, and vanquished even death and the grave through his understanding of God's power to heal and to bless mankind. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 1), "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love."

Christian Science does not teach that all disease, and even death itself, are only imagination or delusion—which according to a dictionary definition means, "that which exists only in fancy"—but that they obtain, because of fear, ignorance, or sin. We read in Science and Health (p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor real,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

Sin, sickness, and death have no real existence because they do not belong to God or to His government, otherwise Jesus could not have destroyed them through his healing ministry, for Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, all evil.

It is gratifying to note that the writer of the article admits that partial or even complete healing can be had through Christian Science in some cases. We reply, in the words of Christ Jesus, "With God all things are possible."

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