Article October 27, 1928 Issue

In the "To-day" column of a recent issue of the Times...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—EI Paso

Times

In the "To-day" column of a recent issue of the Times statements appear concerning the teachings of Christian Science, for the correction of which I would be pleased to have you allow space. The item in question refers to a surgical operation reported as having been performed on a patient under hypnotic control, without an anxsthetic, the assertion being made that "physical suffering and all other troubles are in the brain." As if to confirm this alleged fact, the comment follows: "Ask your Christian Science friend." Christian Science teaches, however, that neither sensation, intelligence, nor life is to be found in brain or elsewhere in a material body.

It is self-evident that if intelligence were in men's brains, or life in a material body, immortality would be a myth. Christian Science, teaching that real being is spiritual, not material, declares man's life to be indestructible, eternal. Inasmuch as hypnotism is mentioned in the account under consideration, kindly permit me to point out to your readers that Christian Science eschews all mesmeric or hypnotic methods of cure as inimical. The practice of Christian Science is wholly spiritual, being based on the premise that the divine Mind, God, is the only Life and intelligence of man, and the only true Healer of mind and body.

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