Article December 12, 1977 Issue

Christian Science Is No Placebo

HELEN C. MOON

Christian Science healing is not a sugar pill. It is not homeopathy, nor is it a faith cure. Christian Science practice is Christian healing as practiced by Christ Jesus.

All who honestly attempt to heal—whether as medical doctors, faith healers, or even witch doctors—share with Christian Scientists a desire to relieve humanity of pain, destroy disease, silence sickness. The methods differ radically.

Christ Jesus healed "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people."^{Matt. 4:23;} He also, through the action of spiritually reflecting the presence of God, raised the dead and solved the fundamental problems humanity faces. His thorough and precise understanding of the nature of God as Spirit, the nature of man and the universe as entirely spiritual, and the relationship of God to man as Father to son gave him access to divine power. The intelligent understanding and impartial spiritual love expressed by Jesus are totally distinct from blind faith in a mysterious, ambiguous deity or faith in drugs, charms, or people.