Article January 3, 1925 Issue

The reference to Christian Science in the serial now appearing...

James M. Stevens, Committee on Publication for the State of Minnesota,

Forum-Advertiser, Wells

The reference to Christian Science in the serial now appearing in your paper is misleading, as it confuses Christian Science treatment—which is the utilization of the law of divine Mind, God—with the employment of the teachings of Sigmund Freud, which deal only with the human mind. The statement referred to is, "A mixture of Freud and Christian Science he gives us." There can be no mixture of Freud and Christian Science, because the two teachings are diametrically opposite and cannot mix. Freud's treatment is a system of psychoanalysis,—a form of mental treatment based on the supposed potency of the human mind; while Christian Science eliminates the human mind entirely as a factor in healing, and deals only with the one, infinite, divine Mind, God.

Christ Jesus, the world's premier healer, said, "I can of mine own self do nothing." He attributed all power to God. Christian Science recognizes that the human mind cannot possibly heal; but it maintains that the correct understanding of God and His creation, intelligently applied, is just as potent to heal now as it was in the time of Jesus. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writing on page xi of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says: "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily consciousness and gives place sin to reformation."

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