Article March 13, 1926 Issue

Christian Scientists rejoice in the press dispatch in your...

Ralph G. Lindstrom, Committee on Publication for the State of Colorado,—Denver

Rocky Mountain News

Christian Scientists rejoice in the press dispatch in your recent issue to the effect that the Jewish church is about to undertake the investigation of spiritual healing. This is confirmation of a fact well known to them, namely, that progress in religion, with consequent closer acquaintance with God, involves spiritual healing. The dispatch inferentially associates Christian Science with mental suggestion, however, and therefore brief space for correction is respectfully requested.

Christian Science and suggestion are no more related than good and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness, Truth and error. Christian Science healing is the operation of the Mind which is God; suggestion is the operation of the human, carnal mind, which Paul says is "enmity against God." The divine Mind, the only real healer, can only be expressed in good, in harmony, in perfection, by right thinking; suggestion is the operation of the human, mortal mind, where, and where alone, evil, discord, and imperfection claim to have existence in wrong beliefs. The divine Mind cannot be suggested. It is forever expressed—expressed in Mind's unchanging perfection, a fact clear to all with sufficient spiritual understanding to see. Even though the mists of suggested, mistaken beliefs from one human mind to another seem to obscure the fact, nevertheless the divine Mind is, always has been, and ever will be, perfectly expressed (never suggested) in a perfect creation. That is why Moses, when commissioned to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, finally learned of God as "I AM THAT I AM." It will be a wonderful boon to a sin-sick world when these sincere efforts after spiritual healing transcend the suggestions of the discordant human mind, in the humble endeavor to reflect the ever available, never fading, "altogether lovely" divine Mind.

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