Article October 29, 1927 Issue

In his "To-day" column recently appearing in your paper,...

W. Clyde Price, Committee on Publication for the State of Utah,—Salt Lake City

Deseret News

In his "To-day" column recently appearing in your paper, an editorial writer, when commenting on a doctor's statement that a certain prisoner only imagined he was ill, said, "Christian Science will tell him all ills are imagination and error, none real." In order that your readers may know the attitude Christian Science really takes towards this question, I respectfully submit this statement. Christian Science does not say that all ills are imagination, if by ills is meant physical disease. It does claim that thought governs the body, and if one's thoughts are discordant, the body becomes subject to the manifestation of physical inharmony or sickness. Of a man we read in the Scriptures, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Jesus recognized that sinful, wrong thinking caused disease, and he healed, or removed, the effects of both sin and disease by the same method. To the adulterous woman whom he healed, he said, "Go, and sin no more;" and to the man with the palsy, whom he told to take up his bed and walk, he said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee."

If a young child at a blackboard in school were asked to solve a simple problem in multiplication and ignorantly believed that six times eight were fifty, the result obtained under such reasoning would be erroneous. The error would rest in his false belief about six times eight, and would be untrue or unreal, but the result as shown on the blackboard would not be considered merely an imagination. In order to correct the error, the child must correct his thought about six times eight. The truth when established in his thinking would remove the error. In like manner, Jesus taught his disciples and followers to heal (or destroy) sin, disease, and death. He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, wrote in her book, "No and Yes" (p. 4): "Disease is more than imagination; it is a human error, a constituent part of what comprise the whole of mortal existence,—namely, material sensation and mental delusion. . . . On the ground that harmony is the truth of being, the Science of Mind-healing destroys the feasibility of disease; hence error of thought becomes fable instead of fact. Science demonstrates the reality of Truth and the unreality of the error."

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