Article December 24, 1927 Issue

The writer of the syndicated column, "Outwitting Your...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Davenport

Democrat and Leader

The writer of the syndicated column, "Outwitting Your Nerves," began her article in a recent issue of your paper. by saying, "The new-thought believers and the Christian Scientists have the right idea when they say, 'There is no desire not capable of fulfillment.' " The tenor of the entire article, from which I have just quoted, expressed the belief of your contributor that the operation of human desire and will-power determines the acquirement of health and success. Then to intimate, as was done in the introductory remarks, that such processes are like Christian Science reveals ignorance of its religious teaching. First of all, Mrs. Eddy nowhere says that "there is no desire not capable of fulfillment." But according to Christian Science the spiritual healing of disease, as well as success in all right endeavor, is accomplished through the operation, not of the human will with its desires, but of the divine will. To this will of divine Mind, God, the Christian Scientist yields as did Jesus, who said, "Not my will, but thine, be done." The human will or desire is not even a factor in the regenerating and healing power of God, as experienced in Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy, writing on this subject, says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 144) : "Human will-power is not Science. Human will belongs to the so-called material senses, and its use is to be condemned. Willing the sick to recover is not the metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but is sheer animal magnetism. ... Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, 'Peace, be still.' "

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