Article March 6, 1909 Issue

Your report of a recent meeting states that one of the...

Albert E. Miller—Philadelphia, Pa.

Evening Bulletin

Your report of a recent meeting states that one of the speakers asserted that Christian Science urges the power of the human will. This statement uncorrected leave your readers to believe that Christian Science employs hypnotism. This ground of misstatement has been covered many times before, but there still seem to be a few who profess to believe that Christian Scientists do not understand their own teaching. Lest this opinion continue to prevail, even among a few, let me state most positively that Christian Science is not hypnotism or mesmerism; neither is it in any way allied to or dependent upon human will. On the contrary, it is the relinquishment of the human will and the acceptance of the divine which enables the Christian Scientist to work out his salvation—not "with fear and trembling," but, as a later translator has given it, "in the midst of fear and trembling." The understanding of God, and of man's relationship to Him, constitutes the basis and foundation of all Christian Science effort and endeavor. The effect of this effort is to establish health and holiness on a permanent basis by understanding the divine origin of man, and the protection against evil which this divine relationship affords. The Christian Scientist does not plead with a reluctant or unwilling God to bestow health and success upon him, for his understanding shows him that God maintains man in His image and likeness, and that from the divine standpoint man has immunity against evil if he will but assert this immunity.

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