Satisfying Evidence

Albert E. Miller

The Homoeopathic Envoy

Mr. Editor.

All who have at heart the welfare of the race rejoice when human suffering is relieved. Appreciation for this relief is not necessarily lessened when one fails to understand or endorse the method employed. If relief is actually afforded, and health and happiness are brought into thousands of homes throughout our land, all fair-minded people are willing in a measure to look at the individual, through whose teaching and practice this good work has been accomplished, as a public benefactor.

An examination of Mrs. Eddy's writings would disclose the fact that she makes no claim that the phenomena of mortal existence which we call death, or that matter itself, is not real to our mortal sense of things. Insistence that matter is as nothing in the sight of God, however, is surely in line with consistent Christianity. Jesus had no good to say of matter. He urged his hearers to look away from the material into the spiritual. He said: "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing."

On page 348 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the text-book of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy says: "I have never supposed the world would immediately witness the full fruitage of Christian Science, or that sin, disease, and death would not continue for an indefinite time; but this I do aver, that, as a result of teaching Christian Science, ethics and temperance have received an impulse, health has been restored, and longevity increased. If such are the present fruits, what may not the harvest be, when this Science is more generally understood?"

Albert E. Miller.
In The Homoeopathic Envoy.

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