The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-05

the pen of DIR. j. NJ. IhurStOn, touch
ing upon points brought out in lee
ture on Christian Science delivered in
your city recently. Inasmuch as this
reply mistates and misrepresents, all
unconsciously we doubt not. the real
purpose and import of Christian
Science teaching, we ask in justice 10
all parties concerned space for the fol-
lowing statement:
The doctors scholarly thesis on ply
Biological and medical principles be
speaks learning and high degree of
proficiency in his chosen calling.
Not a single statement along these
lines do we question. Approaching as
we do the astounding intricacy and
multiplicity of these man-made ''inven-
tions," human ills and medical terms
and connections, to say nothing Of the
complex anatomy of the fleshly man
we hold in high esteem the calling of
the reputable physician or surgeon.
Coping manfully We believe, and to the
best of his understanding with the
awful complexity of human ills, the
physician of today stands well to the
forefront in the ranks of the world S
benefactors. The fact that his sys-
tenn and methods are today as they
have been for thousands of years
largely. if not entirely experimental
and largely curtailed of desired results
because SO absolutely physical, these
facts do not initiate in any sense
against honesty of purpose and earn
estness of effort in the case, we may
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clan. 1t will probably be ages before
the race has been educated or pro-
crossed out of prevalent and time
honored material conceptions of life
and being, into spiritual sense, the
true sense. of all things, and into an
absolute reliance upon divine and splr-
itual being and holier methods of heal
ing. Until that time the reputable
physician and his skill in medicine
and surgery will be in demand. Mean
while, however, elementary steps tend
spirit and recourse to spiritual meth
DDS are in a direct line with progress
and should call forth the sanction of
men of learning even in the medical
fraternity.
More and more also, as we thus pro-
gress out of matter and into spirit, will
we come to understand the utter fulfill
ity of an attempt to combine the spir-
itual and the material in our quest
after health and peace. The command
is imperative. Choose ye this day
whom you will serve Just here
therefore. is the crucial point in the
IF of T1r~
tons statements. Our critic, as DO
all critics of Christian
science fails utterly to grasp the fact
SO clearly brought out in the Scripture
that mans real life is God, distinct and
apart from body, not dependent upon
bodily conditions, hence unaffected, ex-
cept in mortal belief. by the so-called
physical or bodily organism. Jesus,
the great physician who always healed,
and never failed to heal, who healed
fully and completely, enjoined very
Take no thought for the
body" He himself also healed all
manner of disease and raised the dead
from the grave and material corrup
ton without drugs or manipulation.
without diagnosis or question. More
over, our Lords declaration, Il can do
nothing of myself whatsoever
things the Father doeth. these doeth
the Son likewise" would seem to indi-
cate that all which he accomplished.
his works of healing. result
ed, not from the action of the so-called
human mind, as seen in the practice CT
mental suggestion, mesmerism, etc.
confused by our critic with the healing
Of disease through spiritual means in
Christian Science, but from the opera
ion of the one infinite, divine Mind.
otherwise designated by Jesus THE
Father Our Lords healing wrought
by his followers for some 800 years
after his departure from the earth was
pre- eminently divine healing. 1t is
moreover, the divine method of healing
practiced by Jesus and eujoined by
him on his followers of all ages which
Christian Scientists are earnestly and
trying to practice.
With what degree of success they are
striving to fulfill this divine COM
mission and relieve human suffering.
healed of all manner of dis
ease without drugs OF the kulle Use UP
o testify.
A careful and unbiased study of the
of Christian Science will re-
real the fact that menal suggestion. So
allied mind action (humanly speaking)
Influence and blind faith play
10 part in the process of restoring
through Mrs Eddy's method. We
lave already attempted to show that
bodily conditions. physical organism.
are not taken into con-
ideration. and it is foregone conclu-
ion that Christian Science does heal.
Hence it would seem that the balance
# argument is on the side of Christian
science and that our critics theories
# the origin of disease, of material
Methods of treating the same. we'll
vorded as they are, fail of their pur-
lose in the present discussion. because
presented along lines SO utterly foreign
o the spiritual realm of christianity
cientifie investigation and demonstTa- |
ion. 1t will be readily conceded by all |
hat spiritual things must be spirit |!
tally discerned. hence the utter fulfil |
" of our friends effort to discounten- |