Article July 15, 1922 Issue

I was much interested to read in a recent issue of your...

Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,—Petersburg, Va.

Progress and Index-Appeal

I was much interested to read in a recent issue of your periodical an article on autosuggestion by a professor, and I congratulate him on his discovery of the significant fact that thought governs the organs and functions of the physical body. However, I wish to say at the outset that I do not agree with him in his deductions from this premise; and I also wish to correct a reference he has made to Christian Science in the course of his article.

Christian Scientists fully recognize the influence of conscious, as well as unconscious, thought on the body; but, through the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, and through individual experience and observation, they have also learned that this so-called human mind is the source of all their woes, and they know better than to look to it for healing. The apostle James asked, "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" Instead of "catching hold of this truth by the tail," as the critic states, Christian Scientists seek the head and fount of all healing, which is God, the governing Mind of the universe. They strive to obey the apostolic command, "Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;" and they find that the physical body is transformed through this "renewing of the mind."

I also wish to note another marked difference between autosuggestion and the practice of Christian Science. While the professor states that "suggestion is a great beneficial, and not a detrimental, agent," he fails to attach any importance to the spiritual and moral state of one's mentality. On the other hand, the veriest beginner in Christian Science is immediately impressed with the emphasis laid on obedience to both moral and spiritual law, and he learns that permanent healing cannot be accomplished when these are disregarded. Christian Scientists carry within them the assurance of God's presence and protecting care, which eradicates every thought that is unlike the divine Mind. Day by day they are proving that God is "a very present help in trouble;" and they no longer depend upon the ability of the human mind to correct itself or to control the body. As Mrs. Eddy has stated (Science and Health, p. 482): "Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease."

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