Article April 26, 1913 Issue

The article by Dr. James J. Walsh, "Nosophobia—the...

George Shaw Cook in

Chicago (Ill.) Record-Herald

The article by Dr. James J. Walsh, "Nosophobia—the Dread of Disease," published in the Sunday Record-Herald, doubtless has been read with interest by many whose thought has turned in the direction of a mental cause and cure for disease. The information contained in this article relative to needless fears, which often result in disturbed functions and diseased conditions of the body, is interesting. Likewise the author's citation of many cures which have apparently resulted from a changed mental state alone, should have interest for those who have possibly given drugs an all-important place in the healing of disease.

In classifying Mrs. Eddy with Greatrakes, Perkins, Dowie, and Schlatter, the author makes a mistake which is sometimes made by those who do not fully understand the true nature of Christian Science Mind-healing,—those who perhaps consider its effects more than the modus operandi by which those effects are brought about. It is well known that some said of the healing works of Christ Jesus, "He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils," and the tendency nowadays is to account for Christian Science healing by calling it mental suggestion or some form of mesmerism. The difference between Christian Science practise and all forms of mesmerism is that the one who employs mental suggestion generally believes thoroughly in the reality of disease while trying to change his patient's belief regarding it, whereas the Christian Science practitioner understands the unreality of disease and frees his patient from fear and false belief by knowing that, as Mrs. Eddy has said on page 335 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal. Sin, sickness, and mortality are the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, and must be contradictions of reality."

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