Article October 26, 1974 Issue

Letters to the Press

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

J. Buroughs Stokes

Johnson City Press-Chronicle

Johnson City Press-Chronicle
Johnson City, Tennessee

Continuing what seems to be a one-man drive to discredit Christian Science, [the author] in his latest column on the subject shows a characteristic disregard for the full facts. While many religious bodies have been the butt of his cynicism, it is interesting to find him devoting several columns in the past year to the sole task of proving Christian Scientists to be knaves, fools, and a menace to society.

Since no Christian denommation is made up of 100 per cent saints, and no healing system has a 100 per cent record of cures, it is always possible for a determined detractor to sketch a dark picture with a few well-chosen and carefully rearranged facts. No doubt the [detractors of Christian healing in] the first century pointed to Nazareth, where Jesus "did not many mighty works ... because of their unbelief" (Matt. 13:58), as concrete evidence of the failure of his healing mission.

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