Article October 15, 1927 Issue

Will you kindly allow me space in your paper for the...

Mrs. Emma Ljunglöf, Committee on Publication for Sweden,—Lund (translation)

Lunds Dagblad

Will you kindly allow me space in your paper for the correction of an erroneous and very misleading statement concerning Christian Science made by a medical doctor in his lecture on "Modern Mental Healing," delivered before the Christian Students' Association, which appeared in your recent issue. The lecture is reported as saying that "one form of suggestion, diversion-therapeutics, is especially well known through Christian Science." The doctor is entirely mistaken in his concept of Christian Science. Those who are familiar with its true nature know that no form of suggestion is taught or employed in its practice. Prayer, or treatment, in Christian Science is based upon the fact that there is but one Mind, God; while one who believes in and employs suggestion bases his efforts upon the belief that there are many minds, one of which can influence another. In Christian Science practice the practitioner does not endeavor to hold his patient under any kind of mental control, neither does he try by means of thought transference to change a patient's belief about sickness or any other inharmonious condition. He endeavors through his spiritual understanding of the all-power of good, to prove the unreality of evil. To the Christian Scientist sin and sickness are evil suggestions of the carnal mind, from which mankind needs to be freed.

Evil cannot destroy evil. When the scribes and Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, he answered: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. . . . If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself. . . . But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." With these words Jesus drew a distinct line between Christian healing and mental suggestion of any description. He exposed the incapability of the mortal or carnal mind to heal the inharmonies of its own creation.

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