Article October 2, 1926 Issue

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Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,—Birmingham

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Please allow me space in your paper in which to make correction of an erroneous statement in regard to Christian Science healing which is reported in your recent issue to have been made by a critic. The gentleman, with no unkindly intent whatever, mistakenly classifies Christian Science with mental suggestion, or autohypnotism, as it was practiced by the late well-known Frenchman, Dr. Emil Coue.

Christian Science is entirely different from any and all forms of mental suggestion, holding no relationship to these. Christian Science healing results form the prayer of faith and spiritual understanding, as utilized and taught by Christ Jesus and the early Christians. Through such prayer the power of God, divine Mind, is witnessed in the casting out of evil—sin and disease. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is this statement (p. 482): "Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease."

Now, it is generally conceded by the advocates of mental suggestion and hypnotism that their systems can be used for evil purposes as well as for good purposes. Such systems are therefore dangerous. The process of mental suggestion is altogether a phenomenon of mortal (carnal) mind; and Paul has said that "the carnal [mortal] mind is enmity against God." The prayer of spiritual understanding, such as is used in Christian Science, can only be utilized in doing good. It could not possibly do evil. Its results are seen in the sick healed and the sinning reformed, because it is the divine Mind, God, that heals.

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