Article February 14, 1925 Issue

In your report of a lecture occurs a statement that is...

Albert W. Le Messurier, Committee on Publication for the Channel Islands, England,—Guernsey

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In your report of a lecture occurs a statement that is somewhat misleading; and you will perhaps allow me to correct it. In this statement Christian Science is included with "new-thought, thought healing, etc.," in such a manner as to infer its being identical with the practice of mental suggestion; whereas, Christian Science has nothing in common with the phases of thought above mentioned. Christian Science regeneration and healing are founded on the teachings of Christ Jesus, who had no use for suggestion. His healing work was accomplished entirely through reliance on the one Mind, God; and the people who came for the healing of sickness and sin were restored by his never failing understanding that God, good, is All-in-all, the only creator and the source of good only. Knowing this truth, Jesus had no use for suggestion, which applies to all the ramifications of the carnal mind, which he described as a liar and void of all truth,—doomed to disappear as God is recognized to be the only power. The truth about God and about man, created in His image and likeness, is unquestionably what Jesus alluded to in the well-known but, as yet, only partly understood promise, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

In "Science and Health with Key Scriptures," on page 284, Mrs. Eddy states the fact concisely as follows: "According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind. Thought passes from God to man, but neither sensation nor report goes from material body to Mind." Let one understand this, and the ninety-first psalm, for instance, becomes a practical reality to him.

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