In a letter appearing in a recent issue of the Gleaner,...

George H. Kitendaugh, Committee on Publication for Jamaica, British West Indies,—Kingston

Gleaner

In a letter appearing in a recent issue of the Gleaner, "Believer" asks several questions regarding the teachings of Christian Science.

In order to give a comprehensive answer to all of these questions, much more space than is usually allotted to your correspondents would be required. Therefore, we respectfully refer this writer to the Christian Science Reading Room, where he will have access not only to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" but to all other writings of Mary Baker Eddy. There, too, may be found concordances which will enable him to look up the answers to his questions with greater facility.

The only physician Jesus recognized was God. It is certain that anyone who could instantaneously heal all manner of disease and raise the dead through his knowledge of spiritual truth as Christ Jesus did, could never advocate recourse to any other means of healing. He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do."

In his question, "What man or woman in his or her senses would expect to be immune if accidentally they drank or ate a deadly poison?" "Believer" inadvertently admits that although he believes in the personality of Christ Jesus, he does not believe his teachings. Jesus said, "If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;" and Paul, who was not an immediate disciple of Jesus, "shook off the beast [viper] into the fire, and felt no harm."

In the light of the healing works accomplished by Christ Jesus, by his disciples, and by Paul, what man in his senses can doubt God's ability and willingness to save humanity from disease and discord of every sort, including the effects of poison?

It is not at all unusual to hear of healings of ptomaine, lead, and blood poisoning through the power of God, as revealed in Christian Science, which proves that this power is available and accessible here and now, when rightly understood.

When humanity looks to God for its healing with the same faith, confidence, and expectancy that is now reposed in material methods of healing, much better and more lasting results will be experienced.

Surely our critic does not really believe that humanity stands less in need of redemption from vice, sin, disease, and distress today than at "the inception of Christianity"! The followers of Christ Jesus will never be relieved of the necessity of doing the works done by him and by his apostles until every thought is brought into captivity "to the obedience of Christ," and, in the words of Paul the apostle to the Ephesians, "till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

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