The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-11
CHRISTIAN SCI
ENCE EXPLAINED
Claimed 1t Will Eventually Do
Away With Sickness
and Death.

What is Christian science? Is II a
system of religion. or merely a cure for
the sick? This was the question asked
a gentleman who is prominently iden-
titled with the movement.
1t Is a religion. Ii may becom n
cure for physical ailments. inasmuch
as these must always give way to right
living and right thinking. a Christian
Scientist claims no more when seeking
to work for God In healing sickness
than he would IL he were trying to con-
vert the sinner. Gods help is essential
in both cases. In n word. Christian
science seeks to r~e-establish the teach
ings and practices OF Christ and of
primitive Christianity. The healing is
accomplished through the action OF n
divine law which always has existed
and always will. This law. To a greater
or less extent. has been applied to the
healing Of the sick i'm all ages. IL never
became entirely imperative. IL was
lost al different periods, but never de
stroyed. IL Is the understanding Of this
Iaw-which Mrs. Mary Baker q. Eddy
has given the world i'm her spiritual
Interpretation OF the Bible-that en-
ables Christian Scientists tn perform
their cures. IL Is this manifestation OF
power which comes Of truth. that has
brought over a million men and women
into the church. on the one hand. and
that. on the other. has aroused the ac-
tive hostility Of many ministers and
physicians. We claim to have restored
something the churches of Christendom
had lost. There Is divine authority. a
divine command. that those who min
lister to the spiritual needs of the world
should also have control over ickness
and death.
Healing Is the natural outcome OF the
theology OF Christian science. No one
10 whom the Bible is an authority in
spiritual matters will deny that The
primitive Christians healed the sick.
| Why has this power been LOST Chris
tian science because we have
had greater faith in man than In God.
The world has preferred something IL
could see to something Ii could only
know through an apprehension OF
Gods law.
The cures OF Christian science are
| effected by the realization of the truth
that the human mind creates all the
action and organism OF the material
body. and that the mortal can he con-
trolled by the divine mind. This divine
mind will care for the body II Gods
order is not interfered with by man
made laws. One need not take cold by
ignoring the mortal belief that sitting
in a ~draughty place produces a cold.
We should suffer only when we disre-
gard a spiritual lava law Of God.
Christian Scientists hold that all
: matter is unreal: nothing exists. but
God. His universe. and His perfect idea,
except in belief"
Then. why do Christian Scientists
n II necessary to eat and take the
same care Of their bodies that those do
who are not Christian Scientists was
I asked.
THAT IL because we have not dem
onstrated far enough. hut the principle
holds good. even though II has gone but
"A little way" was the answer.
''You believe that "A patient may he
cured by the i~nterposition of any one
acting at a ~distance?" was the next
question ~propounded.
Certainly. Space il no obstacle To
the divine mind. A Scientist In New
York has successfully treated a patient
in Paris. How was the treatment car
reid on? The healer was informed by
cable as Ia the progress of his patient.
The case had been diagnosed by regu-
lar physicians as advanced typhoid
fever. The cure by Christian science
was effected in three days. This may
seem wonderful to you. but IL Is a well
authenticated case. and not at all won
derful to me-for I am familiar with
even more remarkable cures"
To the question N Christian science
doctors employ a different method with
different diseases. IL vas replied:
Not necessarily. SO far as the prin-