LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

Thomas E. Heron

Montreal Star Weekend Magazine

Montreal Star Weekend Magazine, Quebec, Canada

From Thomas E. Heron, we have a letter which refers to a recent Weekend article. It reads in part:

"In your article appeared a statement that requires correction: it was quoted, 'We are not faith healers like the Christian Scientists.'

"It is sometimes innocently though incorrectly assumed that faith healing and Christian Science healing are one and the same, but this is not so. Christian Science healing is the result, not of faith merely, but of the spiritual understanding of God, Spirit, and of spiritual man, made in God's own image and likeness, as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible. Mere faith or belief in God, though essential, was not considered to be enough in the teachings and practice of our beloved Master, Christ Jesus. In the case of his own students, or disciples, success in healing was 'the result of a cultivated spiritual understanding.' [This reference is from a statement by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She writes (p. 271): "In Latin the word rendered disciple signifies student; and the word indicates that the power of healing was not a supernatural gift to those learners, but the result of their cultivated spiritual understanding of the divine Science, which their Master demonstrated by healing the sick and sinning."]

"Christian Science is the revelation of this God-given spiritual understanding, and the healing that follows is the natural result of such understanding."

Thomas E. Heron Committee on Publication

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