Article August 7, 1926 Issue

My attention has been drawn to a lecture reported in your...

Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,—Bridgeport, Connecticut

My attention has been drawn to a lecture reported in your recent issue in which Dr. William Ernest Hocking, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, spoke of Christian Science healing as if it were limited to the effects of human thought. Therefore, I wish to present to your readers a pertinent explanation. Incidentally, also, it is to be observed that Dr. hocking did not attribute such extensive effects to human thought as is asserted by a considerable number of other speakers and writers who are not Christian Scientists.

For instance, in the San Francisco Bulletin of October 13, 1925, Dr. Carl D. Camp, professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan, was reported as saying, "Purely emotional reactions can actually cause organic disease and changes in physiological structure." So, also, Dr. Alfred T. Schofield, of London, says in his book on the mental factor in medicine that the power of the unconscious mind over the body is not limited to function.

In The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel there are published regularly signed statements containing testimonies of Christian Science healing, many of which involve organic structure. These periodicals have published thousands of such testimonies, and many of the cases were previously under medical treatment. Furthermore, in more than a few instances Christian Scientists have presented testimony of Christian Science healing, including cases of organic disease, before legislative committees and in courts.

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