Article October 8, 1910 Issue

To any one who wonders how the many amazing misconceptions...

William J. Bonnin

Manchester (Eng.) Chronicle

To any one who wonders how the many amazing misconceptions as to the true nature of Christian Science obtain currency, a recent issue should prove instructive.

First, there was an account of an inquest at Nottingham where a woman had died without medical treatment. There was no evidence whatever that she had received any Christian Science treatment at any time. The account, however, was headed, "Christian Science." In this connection it might be pointed out that the constant endeavor to discredit the great work that Christian Science is accomplishing by giving an undue prominence to sporadic instances of alleged failure, seems to imply some forgetfulness of the fact that the argument, if it be an argument, is one to be easily turned against "orthodox practice" with overwhelming force. Imagine every death under medical treatment having a quarter of a column in the daily press assigned to it with an indictment of that treatment for a head-line!

Secondly, there was in the same issue a contribution over the name "Jeff," dealing with what the writer called "a new name for will-power." The wiser people have almost abandoned the practice of attacking Christian Science with no knowledge of their subject. Unfortunately the ground where these wiser and more angelic natures fear to tread does not necessarily remain altogether untrodden. Christian Science has, of course, no more to do with human willpower than with suggestion; it is but the understanding, or science, of our true being, and it fulfils the promise, "Understanding shall keep thee: to deliver thee."

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