Editor, (excerpt), 1900
In a recent issue of the Sentinel we republished from the Midland an account of a lady who went to a famous New York physician for medical advice and treatment. After giving the doctor a list of her symptoms and answering his questions, she was told that she needed to read her Bible more. When she demurred the doctor told her, kindly but firmly, to go home and read her Bible an hour each day for a month and then come to him again.
She was not a little surprised at this unexpected advice from her physician, but finally concluded that as the prescription was not an expensive one she might at least give it a trial. At the end of the month she returned to the doctor's office and declared that she felt like a different person and needed no other medicine.
When asked how he knew that was what she needed the doctor replied that if he were to omit his daily reading of the Bible he would lose his greatest source of strength and skill. He said that he never went to an operation or attended a distressing case without reading his Bible, and then he added: "Your case called not for medicine, but for sources of peace and strength outside your own mind, and I showed you where to find them unfailingly. I gave you my own prescription and I knew it would cure." …
The Psalmist sang: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases." The prophet said: "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Again, "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily." These texts are not perverted when applied to physical as well as moral healing, for it is God's will that man should be every whit whole. While one should look for and desire moral and spiritual restoration more than physical healing, yet he should not rob himself by limiting God's power and willingness to bestow all good.
The one who goes to the Bible as a little child, earnestly desiring to understand the divine message, will find help. There is nothing God cannot do for His children, and the honest, faithful study of His word enables mortals to acquaint themselves with God and be at peace.
In a recent issue of the Sentinel we republished from the Midland an account of a lady who went to a famous New York physician for medical advice and treatment. After giving the doctor a list of her symptoms and answering his questions, she was told that she needed to read her Bible more. When she demurred the...
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Written by Katherine Puffer for the January 1925 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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By Rev Irving C. Tomlinson, 1905
From the Morning Press, Santa Barbara, California, October 8, 1927