Editorial July 3, 1954 Issue

OUR PLEA FOR JUSTICE

Helen Wood Bauman

One hears more and more of investigations being made of spiritual means of healing. The subject is demanding the attention of religionists and, in some instances, of the medical faculty. The demand of Christ Jesus (Matt. 10: 8), "Heal the sick," is being more thoughtfully considered than ever before. Individual healings brought about by prayer are being sought out and their recipients interviewed. This field of healing is being widely explored.

Frequently, however, one finds that the investigators do not include the healings brought about by Christian Science, nor do they recognize this Science as a bona fide means of spiritual healing. And this, regardless of the fact that actually countless healings have been wrought through Science by prayer alone. Among the authenticated records in the files of The Mother Church and The Christian Science Publishing Society are testimonies of the healing of cancer which reach into the hundreds, of tuberculosis, insanity, heart disease, arthritis, and practically every kind of chronic and acute sickness, of every functional and infectious ill known to humanity. These testimonies tell also of grief assuaged, sin destroyed, human relationships restored to harmony, drunkenness overcome.

Are these records to be passed by lightly? Or is simple justice to impel the committees investigating spiritual healing? It is true that Christian Science sets aside the generally accepted beliefs of the world concerning the nature of life and matter. But the very fact that its fruitage has been so unmistakably good should provoke a deeper inquiry into its method. Christ Jesus himself taught (Matt. 7:20), "By their fruits ye shall know them." His precept should set the pattern for all honest investigation.

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