Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03
THE BISHOP OF LONDON
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
HERESY is WHAT HE
TERMS 1T
FreIates Relates an Instance of How
the Faith and Hope and Courage
of Woman Had Been Awakened.
Speaks Good Word for Physicians
Special Cable to The Herald.


LONDON. Dec. "A remarkable
declaration regarding Christian sci
ence and faith healing was made by
the bishop of London in an address to
the Women's Diocesan association at
the Church house, Westminster
There is in the inmost being of
every one" he said, "a personality that
can be strengthened both to bear suf-
fering, and even to recover from ILL
ness, by bringing right influence to
bear upon it.
Here is a true incident which will
illustrate my meaning. The wife of
one of my clergymen was recently
faced with the appalling prospect of
having within two days to undergo
an operation which might cost her her
life.
when l called upon her | found
her in a state of moral collapse Partly
owing to fear and partly to other
causes her faith and hope were en-
tirely gone, and the physicians and
surgeons recognized that it would be
impossible for the operation to be per-
formed while she was in that state.
Il will pass over the sacred half
hour that I spent with her; but it Is a
fact that two days later she walked
from her room to the operating table
without quiver.
THE surgeons exclaimed: What
has the bishop of London done to you 2
She replied in simple, straightforward
words, Something which none Of you
could have done.
ITO her inmost being where the faith
and the hope and the courage had
died down and crumbled, with Gods
help alone, I had brought that reinvig-
Grafton of her central being which she
needed, and the effect of bringing the
power of God to her central being
brought back again her faith, her
hope and her courage and she became
again Christian woman who could
look death and trial In the face
"She did clearly owe her cure di-
rectly to the power of Jesus Christ
himself"
In many instances, the bishop con
tinued, when one invigorated the faith.
hope and courage of the sufferer, one
thereby wrought a great effect on the
bodily condition of the patient. These
he believed to be absolutely true, and
he believed they lay at the basis Of
the success-so far as it went-and
the prevalence of Christian science.
But when you go on to other points
in Christian science you are erecting
deliberately a real truth into gigan-
tic heresy," added the bishop emphat-
ically.
I'VE have to learn from heresies to-
day as we have learned from them in
times past. Indeed, there is not one
single heresy that has ever existed
that has not recalled the church to
some forgotten truth, and every heresy
lives upon the element of truth which
it contains"
What he wished to say to them as
church workers was, Keep the truth. {"
The clergy ought to approach the bed
sides of the sick with far more faith
They ought to pray for the recovery
and lay hands on them with far more
expectancy that they would recover
In doing their sick visiting they
ought to look with far more hope for
the recovery Of the patient, and not
look alone to the preparation of the
soul for death.
He knew that there We're present one
or two who thought they had special
gifts Of healing. AS their bishop he
put it to them that they must never
try to exercise those gifts apart from
the medical profession.
1T will be observed in the little
story I have told that | never sug-
gested that the woman should not un-
dergo the operation which was so es-
sential to her cure. | wish the medi-
cal profession to understand that the
church regards their healing art as a
sacred thing.
when / was i'll I felt that the doc
by Jesus Christ as the clergyman who
all laA 20.