Article June 7, 1913 Issue

The reference made to Christian Science, calling it "suggestive treatment,"...

William C. Kaufman

Anaconda (Mont.) Standard

The reference made to Christian Science, calling it "suggestive treatment," is misleading, and would give readers a wrong impression of it. Christian Science treatment does not deal with mental suggestion; it is the truth about God and man realized. In the mental treatment known as the "suggestive treatment," disease is admitted to be a fact which is overcome through the human will. Christian Science teaches that God is Life, Truth, and Love; that this divine Principle is manifested as Spirit, Soul, divine Mind; it recognizes Him as the only presence, law, power, cause, and effect. It regards man as made in the image and likeness of God; in other words, that man is the reflection or expression of God, Life, Truth, and Love, not in a bodily form, but in a mental manifestation of quality and essence. Since sickness or disease cannot partake of the nature of God, divine Spirit, it is no part of His creation; therefore it is foreign to God or His creation, hence it is untrue, unreal. This process of spiritual thinking disposes of matter and is a corrective to all error, sickness, disease, or any discord. It should be made plain that "suggestive treatment" may suggest either truth or falsity, but that Christian Science does not suggest anything, but brings to human consciousness, through a spiritual understanding of Truth, a realization of that which is true.

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