The Washington times., 1923-02-26
MAKES ANSWER
On CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
Hiram W. Hayes Replies to
Lecture by Rev. T. v. Moore,
OF Providence Hospital.

that Christian Scientists find 1t
necessary Ito claim that all
diseases can be cured was made
today by Hiram w. Hayes, Of the
fChristian Science Committee on
publication, Mr.. Hayes said:
In the report OF a lecture on
Psycho.Analysis and the Methods
of Coue,' published in The Times
Of the 23d inst, the Rev. Thomas
Werner Moore, Of Providence Hos
pital is quoted as saying: The trou-
BILE is that Christian Scientists al.
ways fail to distinguish between the
three kinds of diseases. In their
case it Is necessary to claim that
all diseases can be cured
VIII you permit me to explain
chat Christian Scientists in their eff.
forts to bring relief to the sick are
striving their utmost to obey the
command of Jesus when he told his
followers to preach The Kingdom
OF Heaven is at hand and to heal
the sick Matt. 1917 and 81, and
they are striving to do this in the
same way that Jesus did--by abso.
lutte reliance upon God. So far as
recorded, Jesus never diagnosed dis
ease as organic, functional, nervous
or what not.
"He healed the impotent man who
was lowered through the roof, the
cripple at the pool, and the man
who was born blind by exactly the
same means that he healed sSiFnon's
wife's mother, who, ii is recorded,
was sick of a fever.
Recalls Cures By Paul.
Those who classify diseases
would doubtless have called some
of the foregoing as organic and
some as functional: but not so did
Jesus and his disciples. Later, Paul
healed the young man who fell out
of the window at Troas and broke
his neck, as recorded in the goth
chapter Of acts. by the same means
that he used at Melita to heal the
father of Publius of disease, which
the writer of the book of acts calls
fever and flux.
Christian Scientists understand
that it is God, Who forgiveth all
thine fniquities; who healeth all
thy Diseases Psalms 1898, and
they turn to Him in sickness just
as they do in trouble. AS well
might one undertake to classify
sins and expect full salvation there
from. as to classify diseases, when
seeking to be healed of sickness by
reliance upon the power and prom
iSes of God.
Healing by prayer, or spiritual
means was pfacticed by the early
Christians fer more than 800 years
after the ascension. In fact, up
~
stantine, declared Christianity the
official rSligion Of Rome, one of
the tests by which the followers of
Christ Jesus were judged was their
ability to heal the sick.
Submerged by Form.
when primitive Christianity gave
way to forms and ceremonies, spir.
ituaI healing was lost and remained
SO until discovered by Mrs. Eddy in
1865. Since that time 1t has been
proven in thousands Of cases that
the prayer of faith does heal the
sick as the apostle James said 1t
would in James sis, and there has
been no marked difference In the
healing work. whether these cases
had been diagnosed as organic or
functional by medical doctors, prior
to Christian Science as a last re-
sort, when all material means had
failed.
"Inasmuch as Father Moore's lcc-
ture was on 'Psycho-analysis and
the Methods Of Coue, it does not
appear why Christian Scientists
should have been mentioned by the
lecturer, as Christian Science has
nothing in common with either Of
the two methods named.
christian Scientists do not rely
| upon the human but upon the d.
vine will TO free them from all the
| ills of the flesh, as well as from the
sins which so continually beset
mankind.
1.-THE lecturers statement that it
| is necessary for Christian Scientists
| to claim that all diseases can be
cured seems to imply that the
claim is unfounded; whereas, there
| is ample evidence in the world to-
day that this implication is rot
| true, to say nothing of the prom
Uses of the Bible. The lecturers
remark will naturally be taken by
your readers as an unjust criticism
of the religious beliefs and prac.
tees of a very large number of
Il
ain the course Of his lecture, the
speaker refers with much pride to
| all that modern science has found
| out.
Mistakes BY Scientists.
Every thinking man is glad to
give modern science credit for all
it's real discoveries, but there is
certainly opportunity for a wide
divergence of opinion when the dis
| cOveries by one group of savants
have time and again been declared
unscientific by another group.
ITO such an extent have one
years discoveries of modern science
been disproved in later years that
Christian Scientists should not be
condemned because they have dis
carded many so-called scientific
methods and have come to base
their healing work upon the de-
| monstrable truth found in the fol-
lowing statements by their revered
| leader:
There is but one primal cause.
| Therefore, there can be no effect
| from any other cause, and there
can be no reality in aught which
does not proceed from this great
and only cause. Sin, sickness, dis
ease, and death belong not to the
science of being. They are the
errors which presuppose the alb