Article October 10, 1925 Issue

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George C. Palmer, Committee on Publication for Saskatchewan, Canada,—Saskatoon

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Will you permit me to refer to the interesting article in a recent issue, reporting in part a session of the doctors' convention in Regina?

When Mrs. Eddy first began appealing to mankind for a closer walk with God, for a more positive acceptance of His omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, the dictionary scarcely contained words sufficiently virulent to level at her. Note, however, the words of the famous naturalist, Agassiz, which she quotes on page 104 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believved it." Quite recently at a medical convention in London, England, at which seven hundred British, United States, and Canadian doctors assembled, Dr. Woods Hutchinson said: "We are getting rid of the drug illusion. We are willing to subscribe to the dictum of Oliver Wendell Holmes that if ninety-nine per cent of all drugs were thrown into the sea it would be a good thing for the human race, but rather hard on the fishes." Now at the important medical convention in Regina, from the lips of Dr. Charles Hunter, of Winnipeg, come the words: "The 'peace of mind' induced by Christian Science had helped—possibly healed—many persons from diseases that had defied the practitioner's diagnosis. Christian Science had also brought relief to individuals who were victims of organic disorders, proving that psychotherapy was not solely confined to functional disease."

What, now, are the forward footsteps we anticipate for mankind? An ever clearer understanding of psychology or the Science of Soul or Mind? Instead of dividing our allegiance between an erring mind, so called, and one divine, unerring Mind, why not, so fast as is possible, turn wholeheartedly to Him who "forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases"? Psychology is misunderstood and mistaught except as it is stated in Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, because it accepts the human mind or soul as a factor in all redeeming processes. Hence it is not found to be the benefit it should prove. The utilization of the human mind is not the practice of Christian Science. The psychotherapy to which Christian Science is likened in the report of the doctors' convention indicates curing by means of the action of a human mind or soul. In Christian Science "Soul" is a synonym for God, and on page 210 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy has written: "Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation. Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical process."

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