Article March 20, 1937 Issue

In your issue of August 11, in speaking of "miraculous...

Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Glasgow

Evening Times

In your issue of August 11, in speaking of "miraculous healing," a clergyman says: "The cures, whether at Lourdes or in Mongolia, are wrought by suggestion, but it is essential to suggest to the patient that there has been no suggestion. This the Christian Science healers know well."

This statement conveys a total misapprehension of the method of Christian Science healing, and in the interest of your readers I shall be glad if you will afford me space to state the facts.

Suggestion, or hypnotism, works on the theory of many minds, and of the supposed power of one human mind over another for good or evil. This practice has nothing whatever in common with Christian Science healing, which is purely spiritual. Christian Science teaches that God is infinite divine Mind, and that man has not a mind of his own separate from the one Mind, but that man reflects God. As Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

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