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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 27, 1912

Christian Science

and Divine Healing

The revised and enlarged edition of former "Christian Science" pamphlet

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE # 7 # Christian Science and Divine Healing ## In the Light of Reason and Revelation # CHAPTER ONE ## Creation, Sin, Atonement In the investigation of Christian Science, every person should be fair-minded enough to bring its claims to the same test that the noble Bereans did when the apostles brought to them new light and truth. Acts 17:11. We are admonished, however, by the inspired Word, not to believe every message that may come, without putting it to the test of the Bible. In 1 John 4:1-3 we are exhorted: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God."

By what means, then, shall we test the teachings of Christian Science? Answer: "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8:20. Not all that claims to be Christian is found to bear the genuine stamp of Christianity. Nor is all that is claimed to be science worthy of the name; for we read of a "science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith." 1 Tim. 6:20, 21.

In view of the fact that many are led to accept the faith of Christian Science without a knowledge of what its teaching involves, I wish to present to the reader some of the plain statements of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and compare the same with the teaching of the Bible. If the claims of Christian Science are founded on the doctrines of Christianity and the facts of science, then every lover of Christianity and science should accept its teaching. If it is not founded upon the word of truth, it should be rejected and exposed. We should test the doctrines of Christian Science by the word of Jesus Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega of Christianity, and the Author of all laws by which true science is discovered and maintained. John 1:3; Heb. 1:2, 3.

To be entitled to bear the name "Christian," one must believe in the religion of Christ, and conform to the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Him. We shall test by this simple rule the claims of this teaching to the name "Christian." True science is a revelation of what is truth. Christ, the Author and Source

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CHAPTER NINE

Divine Healing

Is divine healing a Bible doctrine? Is there need for healing? May we experience a miraculous healing of the body? These questions are clearly answered both in the Bible and by human experience.

While so-called Christian Science claims to heal, and for this reason the doctrine is accepted by thousands of afflicted people as a panacea for all the ills of life, at the same time Christian Science teaches that there is no such thing as disease, sickness, or death, that no one in reality is sick. All pretended Christian Science healers are enjoined never to admit that any one is sick.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," edition published in 1905, page 447, we read, "Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but acknowledge no reality in them." Speaking of a patient, the same author says, "In her belief, the woman had chronic liver complaint and was then suffering from a complication of symptoms connected with this belief." Page 389. "Deformity . . . is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error. . . . Man in science is neither young nor old. He has neither birth nor death." Page 244. "Truth makes no laws to regulate sickness, sin,

Would you not like to have, with these, the other 109 pages of this work in form to study for yourself, and to pass on to friends who may be investigating? Seventy-eight pages deal with the principles of Christian Science from the standpoint of Scripture, in chapters: Creation — Sin — Atonement, Christian Science and Pantheism, Spirits, The Holy Spirit, Heaven, Spirit and Matter, Christian Science's Claim to Heal, Wresting the Scriptures, Christian Science and Spiritualism.

The chapter on "Divine Healing" contains twenty-four pages, and is followed by a review of the entire subjects.

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