Article March 10, 1928 Issue

In a recent number of your esteemed paper there appeared...

Paul Gassner, Committee on Publication for Germany,—Schorndorf, Germany (translation)

Schorndorfer Volksblatt

In a recent number of your esteemed paper there appeared a report of a lecture on "The Coué Healing Method," in which Christian Science was referred to and the statement made, "Christian Science conforms to Coué in many points." In order to correct this statement it may be remarked that Christian Science is the designation of a Christian religion and cannot be compared with the Coué system in any way whatever. The teachings of Christian Science are contained in its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. This textbook is based solely on the Bible and contains nothing contradictory to the teachings of Jesus as handed down to us in the New Testament. Chapters IV and V of this textbook are especially directed against all so-called influence of the human will, spiritualism, occultism, hypnotism, as well as against formulas of every kind. The aim of Christian Science is to bring to mankind's consciousness primitive Christianity in all its phases. The healing of the sick is not its chief aim; but certainly one of the conditions of primitive Christianity is the putting into practice of one's faith through works, which Jesus enjoined all faithful Christian to do. Jesus did not heal by suggestion or by human will; rather did he teach that he did not do the works himself, but that it was the Father, the eternal Truth, that worked in him. Likewise, the Christian Scientist knows that he is not a healer, but that the laws of divine Truth may be just as effective through him to-day as through others in the time of primitive Christianity. There is nothing mysterious about Christian Science; it cannot, therefore, be designated as a mystery teaching.

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