Article April 25, 1925 Issue

In a statement in a recent issue of your paper Christian Science...

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

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In a statement in a recent issue of your paper Christian Science is included with "new-thought, thought healing, etc.," in such a manner as to cause one to infer that it is identical with the practice of mental suggestion, whereas Christian Science has nothing in common with the phases of thought above mentioned. Christian Science, through which regeneration and healing take place, is 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 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, Jesus had no use for suggestion, which applies to all the remifications 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 the man He created in His image and likeness is unquestionably what Jesus alluded to in the famous but, as yet, only partly understood scientific promise, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." In "Science and Health with Key to the 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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