Article May 27, 1916 Issue

I would be glad to have space for comment on your statement...

Thorwald Siegfried

Puyallup (Wash.) Herald

I would be glad to have space for comment on your statement in a recent issue, that you have been unable to find the source of Christian Science healing outside of certain movements which deal with the speculations and theories of the human mind. Having in mind the attempts of the necromancers of the Old Testament to duplicate the works of the prophets, we find in the words of Jesus a scientifically accurate rule by which to distinguish the one from the other. In the seventh chapter of Matthew he concludes the Sermon on the Mount with a warning against "false prophets," and declares that they will claim to have prophesied and cast out devils in his name. "Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

The point of Jesus' warning is contained in the last word, "iniquity." It is the translation of a Greek word meaning "contrary to law," and indeed in the thirteenth chapter of Luke the same point is made still clearer by the use of the Greek word translated "iniquity" but meaning "without principle." These meanings harmonize with the question of Christ Jesus in Matthew immediately preceding this warning, "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" Obviously they do not, for the law is that good does not proceed from evil.

So real is disease to the human mind that in their fear of it people resort to everything but Truth, God, in the endeavor to obtain health, until, as Mrs. Eddy has said, "the sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, aswell as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love" (Science and Health, p. 322). Now the lawlessness of the human mind is seen in its belief that it is first really sick and then really well; first thorns, then grapes. In fact there may be less fundamental reality in the human mind's so-called health than in its disease, for the reason that true health is not a condition of matter but of consciousness, and that person who believes that his health is in matter fulfils the Scripture, "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"

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