Article April 21, 1923 Issue

Upon being questioned as to whether autosuggestion as...

Clyde Johnson, Committee on Publication for the State of Wyoming,

Morning Herald

Upon being questioned as to whether autosuggestion as practiced by him is not kindred to Christian Science, Emil Coue is quoted as saying: "In Christian Science people are cured by prayer. I teach people to cure themselves by themselves." Christian Science practice does not include "vain repetitions," but definitely states the facts of true being, and thereby refutes the claims of matter. It does not operate through the belief that mortal man is perfectible, but rests upon the spiritual understanding that the real man, the spiritual man of God's creating—not the so-called man of flesh—is perfect even as the Father, his creator, is perfect. Mrs. Eddy states it exactly on page 259 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration." And farther on in the same book (p. 468) she gives us the statement of this "scientific being" and the basis of this "divine healing" in a few terse sentences, which she has named the "scientific statement of being." It is as follows: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is the error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." Christian Scientists are conscientiously endeavoring to heed the succinct statement of Christ Jesus, "No man can serve two masters." Their practice is to seek unto the one infinite God, who "health all thy diseases," according to the Scriptural promise; and they refrain from the use of drugs on the basis of the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

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