Article July 26, 1924 Issue

A recent issue contained a report of a progressive address...

S. Britton R. Foster, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,—Hamilton

Herald

A recent issue contained a report of a progressive address by a medical doctor on "Mental and Nervous Diseases." Had the doctor given this address thirty years ago, when Christian Science was pressing forward alone, enunciating the mental cause of disease and spiritual healing, he would have been ostracized by the then medical profession for "taking up" Christian Science.

The statement that the only value of alcohol in treating influenza "was a mental one, helping to relieve the patient of anxiety and allowing him to relax," is indicative of the fact generally acknowledged, even by our medical friends, that the power behind material drugs is the belief attached to them. Christian Science is influencing world-wide religious and medical opinion, as seen to-day in the mental healing campaigns in many churches and the psychotherapeutic endeavors of doctors, as evidenced in this address. However, there is the revealed Science of Mind-healing, and unless one studies and observes closely, mistakes are necessarily made, as in the case of the doctor, who, perhaps unknowingly, associated Christian Science with the suggestive processes of hypnotism and Coueism. His analysis, showing two schools of thought, the one material or physiological, claiming mind to be in brain-cells and thus doomed to extinction in matter; the other spiritual, in which mind is separate from and survives the brain or matter, is an outstanding contribution to progressive thought. There is Scriptural authority for the second,—the spiritual. And the Science of Christianity, or Christian Science, reveals the unlabored energies of the divine Mind, God, "the great Physician," "who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction," as opposed to the suggestive, temporary, futile, and unavailing efforts of the human, fleshly, carnal mind, which "is enmity against God."

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