Article May 5, 1928 Issue

The remarks of your able correspondent, "An Old...

John George Sumner, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,—Whig, Belfast

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The remarks of your able correspondent, "An Old Fogey," on the subject of administrative reform appearing in a recent issue, will be read with much interest by all. In the course of those remarks a member of the Corporation is quoted as having said: "Lord Mayor and Prime Minister both seem to think that all that is wrong with the Corporation can be cured by Coueism or Christian Science. Some of us have seen enough to know that the municipal disease is too deep-rooted for either autosuggestion or faith-healing to have any chance of success." As this allusion to Christian Science is wholly misleading and therefore objectionable, I feel sure you will grant me the courtesy of space for correction. It should be clearly understood that any reference to Christian Science which associates that religion with Coueism, autosuggestion, and the like, betrays a surprising ignorance of the nature and teachings of Christian Science. The tendency to commit this error will undoubtedly cease as the general thought becomes more enlightened on these matters, mankind advances towards the point of discrimination.

As for the inference that Christian Science could not reach a deep-rooted disease, your readers should know that during the past sixty years Christian Science has healed numerous cases of malignant and hereditary disease pronounced hopeless by doctors; and to-day a great number of written testimonies to this effect are available. As the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has said, "There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 463).

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