Article April 21, 1917 Issue

It was not your correspondent's correct quotation from...

Virgil H. Clymer

Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald

It was not your correspondent's correct quotation from Christian Science authorities, but the deductions he made, which constituted his "man of straw," and his second letter only emphasizes his misunderstanding of the subject. He is misinformed about the case of infantile paralysis. Neither parent of the child was a Christian Scientist at the time. The physicians exhausted their resources before the parents turned to Christian Science, and there is no reason to doubt that both physicians and parents deserve praise rather than censure for their sincere efforts. Under the Christian Science treatment the child was greatly benefited.

Christian Science is the opposite of suggestive therapeutics. Two things could not be more unlike. The basis of suggestive therapeutics is a lie, i.e., the giving of an untrue suggestion to the patient. Jesus said the truth—not a lie or false suggestion—made free, and it is through the understanding of the Christ, Truth, that Christian Scientists bring about the healing of the sick and the sinning.

Your correspondent again misinterprets Christian Science when he tries to make your readers believe it teaches a world without law. It teaches the contrary. On page xi of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says: "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not super-natural, but supremely natural." Also on page 124 she says: "Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification."

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