Article June 6, 1925 Issue

Your correspondents are mistaken in their concepts of...

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

Daily Record

Your correspondents are mistaken in their concepts of Christian Science. The unqualified statement that it "teaches that all suffering and pain are a delusion" or "are nonexistent," is misleading. Christian Scientists do not shut their eyes to the apparent reality of disease. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 460) Mrs. Eddy writes: "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient." To perfect spiritual consciousness pain and suffering are unknown, and so unreal. This is the teaching of Christian Science, as it is also the teaching of the twenty-first chapter of Revelation. The Bible distinguishes emphatically between healings based on the understanding of God and the works of blind faith. To "think one's self out of disease" would be autosuggestion, the practice of the "exorcists," which is condemned in the Bible. It is no part of Christian Science, which heals through the renewing of the mind.

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