Article April 3, 1926 Issue

Our attention has been drawn to an article entitled, "How...

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

Scottish Co-operator

Our attention has been drawn to an article entitled, "How the Mind Helps the Body," by "Medico," in your recent issue. In this article the writer classifies Christian Science along with psychoanalysis, Couéism, and other similar systems, stating that these are the outcome of a belief "that all disease arises in the mind and can be cured by the mind." The writer further states that these systems "will one day pass away to give place to new cures." Your journal is headed "A Journal of Progress and Economy;" and as progress rests upon understanding, we trust you will grant us space to assure your readers that Christian Science has nothing in common with any system which accepts the so-called human mind as a curative agent, for it makes clear that the same mind cannot both cause and cure disease. Christian Science accepts the fact that what is called the human mind is the cause of all disease, but regards that mind as a mistaken sense of being. It shows that just as a right idea in arithmetic will correct a mistake in numbers, so a right idea of being will correct a mistake about being. The right ideas of being must, however, be looked for in the divine Mind, not among the mistakes of the human mind. Every healing in Christian Science is brought about through the subjection of the human to the divine. Thus the healing power of absolute Truth, proved by Jesus and the disciples, is again revealed as an active power in human experience. Christian Science rests upon no human belief which will pass away. It will therefore remain a demonstrable and practical Science, to be increasingly understood and practiced.

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