Article January 20, 1917 Issue

A recent issue reported the establishment by a clergyman...

Thorwald Siegfried—Spokane, Wash.

The Spokesman-Review

A recent issue reported the establishment by a clergyman of a movement "involving mind control over body," known as a school of "Applied Truth Science." In the preface to the interview you say that it "is in line with the Christian Science movement." The endeavor to control affairs by exercising the human will is as old as the necromancers denounced in the Old Testament. Hence it may not safely be assumed that any new movement for "mind control" is a departure from well known hypnotic processes, even though the purpose may be to use them for benevolent ends. Benevolent purposes cannot bring healing or peace by using the mind of mortal man, of whom the Bible says, "Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

To be "in line with the Christian Science movement" means to coincide and be identified with it, for no other reason than that Christian Science is what the definition of its name implies, accurate knowledge of absolute truth; hence it cannot be diluted, subdivided, imitated, or compromised. And because true Christian Scientists are intent on achieving knowledge of the truth, there is no good reason why any one having a similar desire should not work with them; indeed his progress is accelerated by doing so. That is a reason for the Christian Science church being and remaining as unique and distinct from other organizations as Christian Science itself is different from any humanized concept of truth.

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