Article September 17, 1910 Issue

In an article headed "Mental Healing" in a late issue,...

W. E. Fell

Huddersfield (Eng.) Examiner

In an article headed "Mental Healing" in a late issue, "The Hospital" enumerates a list of reputed therapeutic mental agencies, among the number being Christian Science. It is declared "that the success of their treatment depends on the receptivity of the patient combined with a capacity for conveying suggestion on the part of the practitioner." I believe this method to be admittedly that which is practised by the other agencies mentioned, but it most emphatically is not the way where Christian Science is concerned. Any one can certify to the truth of this statement by a perusal of the chapter in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, with the caption, "Animal Magnetism Unmasked."

All hypnotic agencies, wherein one mind dominates another mind, are unqualifiedly condemned in the teachings of Christian Science, and should be so condemned by all right-thinking people, for in theory they are just as capable of being used for evil ends as for any other. Hypnotism in all its branches implies despotic control, and human nature being such as it is, this mental domination is more likely to be used for sinister purposes than for the welfare of mankind. Christian Science, on the other hand, is a radical reliance on God and His Christ, a clear apprehension that God is the author of good, and of nothing of a contrary nature; that no material condition is so bad that it cannot be overruled and ruled out by the spiritual law as taught and demonstrated by the Founder of the Christian religion, Christ Jesus. Hypnotism and Christian Science are as far apart as are the east and west.

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