Article June 5, 1915 Issue

In "I. L. W.'s" able article on the work of an evangelist, in...

Harry I. Hunt,

Newark (N. J.) News

In "I. L. W.'s" able article on the work of an evangelist, in your issue of Saturday, I find a statement linking the use of suggestion with the practice of Christian Science, and I should like to correct this. The Christian Scientist does not use suggestion, though popular misconception of Christian Science would have it so. He accords no spiritual power to what is termed suggestion, for the simple reason that suggestion is an effort of one human mind to influence another human mind. It may be used for evil purposes as readily as for good, and is therefore of the "kingdom divided against itself," which Jesus declared could not stand. It was Paul who classified the human or "carnal mind" as "enmity against God," and to emphasize the utter unlikeness of this mind to Deity, he added, "It is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

It must be manifest to the thinker that all which proceeds from God is good, and hence that any so-called power which is not altogether good is not and cannot be allied with the power of Spirit, God. The Christian Scientist relies upon God, the one Mind, which is the only power, and which is ever present in overcoming sin, evil habits and appetites, discord and disease, and so places his health and happiness upon a sound basis.

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