Article July 19, 1924 Issue

Your issue of January 6 contained a Cappy Ricks story...

Louis E. Scholl, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington—Tacoma

Ledger

Your issue of January 6 contained a Cappy Ricks story on the "Power of Suggestion" by Peter B. Kyne. The story speaks of Christian Science, and would leave the reader with the impressive that suggestion and Christian Science are one and the same thing.

Suggestion and Christian Science are not the same. Suggestion is based on belief in the power of one human mind over another. Suggestion claims to operate through the mortal or carnal mind, which Paul declared "is enmity against God." Its evil practice could not be better illustrated than in the article above mentioned in which Cappy Ricks tells how, by mental suggestion, the khuna doctors of Hawaii "pray their enemies to death."

Christian Science is the very opposite of mental suggestion, with its multiform practices and associations. Any one familiar with Mrs. Eddy's writings knows this to be true. On pages 495 and 496 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she says: "In the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain that error cannot destroy error. You will also learn that in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions from one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind, and this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by man and governs the entire universe."

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