Article August 19, 1922 Issue

The remarks of a recent contributor to your paper in...

W. Stuart Booth, Committee on Publication for the State of Colorado,

Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph

The remarks of a recent contributor to your paper in regard to Mary Baker Eddy are appreciated for their kindness and for their evident purpose of rendering due credit for her great and beneficent work. One erroneous statement was made which is so important that a word of correction is offered for the benefit of your readers.

Like many others who are unacquainted with Christian Science teaching and practice this writer voiced the opinion that Christian Science "brings to bear on problems, physical and mental, the concentrated power of the will," and that the power with which men can help themselves and others is "within themselves." Naturally Mrs. Eddy's own words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" should be accepted as more authoritative than the opinion of one who, according to his own statement, is not a Christian Science student. On page 445 of the Christian Science textbook we read: "Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick. Self-seeking, envy, passion, pride, hatred, and revenge are cast out by the divine Mind which heals disease. The human will which maketh and worketh a lie, hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to health, and is the cause of disease rather than its cure." The experience of individual Christian Scientists verifies these words, and it is found that the subordination of the human will to the divine strengthens and brings out true character, establishes a faith in God based on understanding, and brings deliverance from sin and sickness; and all this is accomplished, not from "within themselves," for it is the one infinite God "who healeth all thy diseases," as the psalmist says.

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