Article September 10, 1927 Issue

In the magazine section of your recent Sunday edition...

Edgar G. Gyger, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—New York

Herald-Tribune

In the magazine section of your recent Sunday edition there appeared an article headed, "Is Psycho-Analysis Voodoo?" in which the author spoke of Christian Science as faith healing. For the benefit of your reading audience, I may say that the discovery given to a suffering world by Mary Baker Eddy is the reestablishment of scientific Christianity practiced by Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples centuries ago. It is not faith healing, as the doctor would have your readers believe, but it is the exercise of the divine Mind, overcoming the errors of the false, material senses, which constantly testify to sin, sickness, and death. It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew that when Jesus "had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sicknesss." These healings were not accomplished through faith, but by understanding spiritual love; and similar experiences are being repeated through the application of the teachings of Christian Science.

Again, the doctor has grouped this Science with "Couéism, autosuggestion, amulets, charms, incantations, chiropractic, and the laying on of hands." This is incorrect, inasmuch as all these latter practices are of human invention; all are the exercise of the human will; and will-power is referred to in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, as follows (p. 206): "Will-power is capable of all evil. It can never heal the sick, for it is the prayer of the unrighteous; while the exercise of the sentiments—hope, faith, love—is the prayer of the righteous."

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