Letters March 19, 1977 Issue

Letters to the Press

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

Hogarth W. Eastman

The Courier

The Courier
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

The report (Courier 7-7-76) headed "Priest Slams Faith Healer in Ballarat" associates Christian Science with the questionable activities of that healer. The article also contains reported statements by [the priest] on the basic teachings of Christian Science.

Although the faith healer is not named, he is certainly not a Christian Scientist. It is true that Christian Science practitioners are available to the public for healing through prayer, but their services must be sought by the patient and the healing is always on a strictly individual basis. The Christian Science practitioner endeavours to open his heart and mind—as well as that of the patient—to the love, the power and the ever-presence of God. As the Christian Scientist understands it, it is the power of God alone that heals.

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