The statement of Dr. Vaughan, "No one who knows the...

Charles K. Skinner

Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald

The statement of Dr. Vaughan, "No one who knows the fundamental facts of chemistry, physics, or biology can ever be a Christian Scientist," would amuse many men and women who have not only been well educated on these particular lines, but who have also held chairs in these professions or have devoted years of earnest work to the practice of medicine, and who are now Christian Scientists.

The whole thing resolves itself into the view-point from which the individual looks at Christian Science. To the one who sees everything through the eyes of a materialist, all must be subject to and respond to the laws of matter. To him, God (if he believes in God at all) must be in some far-away place, controlling the universe by material laws which are as changeable as the theories and specifics of materia medica. To such a person a spiritual universe and a spiritual man created and governed by an omnipotent God who is Spirit, divine Principle, is a myth and positively unthinkable. Call it faddism if you will, but remember that the truth of a theory or proposition is proved only by the results accomplished.

The facts concerning Christian Science—and which cannot be overturned by bald assertions to the contrary—are that vast numbers of people from every walk in life have proved the truth of its teaching through restoration to health after all other means had failed. Unlike the specific, serum, or drug of materialism, prescribed today and discarded tomorrow, the same divine Principle which healed the first one healed them all.

If learning how to regain one's health and retain it makes the "American people ridiculous in the eyes o£ Europe," let us all be faddists; we can well afford to be. The contention that "man has developed physically as far as he may," is but further argument that man is matter and governed by its asserted laws. Happily the world is fast awakening to the fact that man (the true man) was created spiritually and given as his birthright dominion over all, including the physical body which materialists call man.

To claim that "all we know we acquire through our nervous system," leaves God out of the universe entirely. It is nothing but the grossest materialism, and belongs to the dark ages. If there is a God, a supreme intelligence as the Bible states, and man in His image and likeness, then man may acquire all the knowledge that he can use for right purposes, provided he realizes his God-given dominion here and now.

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