Article July 21, 1928 Issue

An editorial in a recen issue of the Arrow concerning...

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

Rolfe Arrow

An editorial in a recen issue of the Arrow concerning deflation of farm lands said: "Another dose of psychological ointment is to be applied to the body politic; we are to try the Christian Science remedy or the Coué method." Such comment would infer that Christian Science is in some way similar to psychology and the theory advanced by Emile Coué, whereas it is in no respect akin to either of them. Christian Science recognizes divine Mind, God, as the only intelligence and man as the reflection of that infinite intelligence. The belief of minds many is given no place in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science. But the teachings of the two theories your editorial associated with Christian Science are admittedly based on the belief that the mortal, human mind is the source of thought and the predominant force in all action. Such teaching is distinctly the antithesis of Christian Science, in the operation of which the human mind is not even a factor.

Contrary to a somewhat prevalent misconception of Christian Science, results are not obtained through that teaching by merely declaring or thinking that conditions are different from what outward appearances indicate, but by intelligently knowing that in every experience God, the ever present and omnipotent, as the Bible declares Him to be, has done and is doing for His children "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." This right understanding of God and well-placed confidence in Him reveals to the Christian Scientist the source of all good, and he finds, instead of lack, abundant supply; in place of sickness he gains the true sense of health, and he experiences harmony where discord seemed to prevail. It is then that he sees a new significance in Mrs. Eddy's words: "We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 192).

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