Article April 17, 1926 Issue

The special editorial in your recent issue, in addition to...

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

Montrose Colorado Press

The special editorial in your recent issue, in addition to argument of the assumption that divine healing should be limited to functional and psychopathic cases, also associates the statement by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468) that "God is All-in-all," with a Coue formula, operating through the power of suggestion. The courtesy of brief space for correction of this confusion of thought is respectfully requested. In the first place, it is difficult to see wherein Christians, following Jesus, the Way-shower, can limit their healing efforts to functional diseases. Jesus healed leprosy, epilepsy, blindness, and even raised the dead, and at the close of his earthly ministry gave this test of discipleship: "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Not only so, but in John we read, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

This editorial would give the impression that treatment by physicians is always successful. While, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 151 of Science and Health, "Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of the higher class of physicians," yet candor impels the observation that four thousand years of medicine have resulted in more of diametrically opposed methods of physical treatment of diseases than in alleviation of disease. On the other hand, Jesus the Christ never lost a case. Thousands are coming to Christian Science for increased understanding of the Master's unifomrly successful method of healing every form of discord, and with success exactly proportionate to the Christliness of the endeavor.

The writer came to Colorado under a diagnosis of tuberculosis. For two and one half years he lived in a large sanitarium in this state, where the medical treatment is the very best known. Then he studied psychotherapy; or, to put it plainly, he tried suggestion. After a while it was realized that suggestion was the operation of one human mind on another, and that undesirable beliefs could be suggested as readily as those deemed desirable. Finally he was blessed through Christian Science with the apprehension that to declare the truth is not to suggest anything, but to realize the fact to the displacement of the misconception of that fact. When the full significance of the simple fact that a perfect God, Spirit, must be expressed in a perfect spiritual creation was realized, then there followed an earnest effort to heed Paul's direction to the Romans, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." To-day, as a result, physical examinations for life insurance have been successfully passed for standard insurance. In the light of such an experience, the following statement by Mrs. Eddy on pages 142 and 143 of Science and Health so far transcends formula as fact transcends mere belief: "Which was first, Mind or medicine? If Mind was first and self-existent, then Mind, not matter, must have been the first medicine. God being All-in-all, He made medicine; but that medicine was Mind. It could not have been matter, which departs from the nature and character of Mind, God. Truth is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day, as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the sick."

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