Article June 26, 1926 Issue

In an article in your newspaper under "The Formations of...

Miss Fredrikke Lie, Committee on Publication for Norway,—Trondhjem (translation)

Dagsposten

In an article in your newspaper under "The Formations of Religions of our Age," by Prof. Karl Vold, the author has a section with the heading "Christian Science." This religion is dealt with sympathetically and with appreciation, but on some essential points it is mentioned in a way that may give your readers an incorrect conception of its teaching. Therefore we must ask space for a correction. After the author has mentioned people who through Christian Science "have regained vigor, joy, and health," he writes, "For we shall remember that imagination, suggestion, and autosuggestion are important parts in the history of sufferings." Suggestion is directly opposed to Christian Science. By suggestion is meant that the thoughts and will of one person are controlling the thoughts of another person. When the sick—suffering from whatever disease—are healed through Christian Science, it is God's power that is operating. Christian Science teaches that God has all power. Evil, sin, and disease have no real power; and this is proved through Christian Science—evil disappears before the power of God, and the patient is healed.

It is the divine Principle of Jesus' teachings and healings that again has been discovered and again is operating among men. It is the spiritual signification of the Scriptures that has been revealed. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 490): "Will—blind, stubborn, and headlong—cooperates with appetite and passion. From this cooperation arises its evil. From this also comes its powerlessness, since all power belongs to God, good."

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