Article November 7, 1925 Issue

In a recent issue of the Glasgow Herald, under "Education,"...

Robert Ramsey, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Glasgow

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In a recent issue of the Glasgow Herald, under "Education," a professor, speaking on "Medicine and Magic" at the Edinburgh University summer graduation, is reported to have stated that a belief in magic or mystery, combined with "suggestible conditions," constitutes the factor on which "Christian Science and spiritual healing build." Christian Science he sums up thus: "Painfully inadequate as the system is, it has founded cathedrals and built churches in large numbers." That a "painfully inadequate system" would stimulate gratitude for good received sufficient to erect such buildings is evidently self-contradictory. We should be obliged, however, if you would let us emphatically deny that Christian Science is in any way connected with either magic, mysticism, or suggestion. Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy writes in its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 80), "dispels mystery and explains extraordinary phenomena." It is not suggestion, but the simplicity of the Christ, Truth, which heals, though, as of yore, it may appear mysterious to "the wisdom of this world."

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