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In a recent issue of the Scotsman you report a lecturer...

William C. Brookes, Committee on Publication for Midlothian, Scotland,—Edinburgh

Scotsman

In a recent issue of the Scotsman you report a lecturer on the History of Medicine at Edinburgh University as having expressed surprise at the success of Christian Science with its "seven hundred congregations in Britain and America." If our critic had trebled his figure he would have been approximately correct; but this inaccuracy is of small significance compared with the erroneous nature of the statement that Christian Science healing is suggestion. All that Christian Scientists are trying to do is to obey the implicit injunction in Jesus' saying: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Therefore to admit, as the critic does, that Christian Science has been successful—in other words, has actually accomplished to some extent the "works," the "signs following" demanded by Christ Jesus—and in the same breath to impute this success to suggestion is to come perilously near to asserting that Jesus worked through suggestion. Suggestion is, as M. Coue admits, hypnotic, and is a phase of the working of the carnal mind, of whose subjects Jesus said, "Ye are of your father the devil."

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