Article May 13, 1916 Issue

As reported in your columns, a lecturer, speaking on the...

Fred R. Rhodes

Huddersfield (England) Examiner

As reported in your columns, a lecturer, speaking on the subject of "Mystery," showed the alleged power of suggestion, "while keenly criticizing the claims of Christian Science." It seems difficult to see how any one can truthfully criticize a subject while totally ignorant of its teaching, and yet the critic couples suggestion and Christian Science together, whereas in reality they have nothing whatever in common; and he is most certainly not "keenly criticizing" the teachings of Christian Science, but his own misconceptions.

On page 101 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "If animal magnetism seems to alleviate or to cure disease, this appearance is deceptive, since error cannot remove the effects of error. ... In no instance is the effect of animal magnetism, recently called hypnotism, other than the effect of illusion. Any seeming benefit derived from it is proportional to one's faith in esoteric magic." There are a great number of other references which prove conclusively that Christian Science teaches that the human or carnal mind, from which all suggestion emanates, and which is capable of believing both good and evil, and as St. Paul wrote "is enmity against God," can never heal a case of sickness or sin, or bring real harmony to the human consciousness. This true sense of harmony, or the kingdom of God, can only be acquired by the constant and conscious endeavor to transform the body by the renewing of the mind; this is the only knowledge or truth which can make us free.

The experience of healing and regeneration which has come to many thousands through the teaching of Christian Science has been brought about by the recognition that all inharmony is the result of wrong thinking, for as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Consequently as we learn to think rightly we are abiding in the shadow of God's loving care and protection, and nothing can in any way defile or dethrone this true sense of man.

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