Article August 3, 1929 Issue

An editorial paragraph in your issue of February 9 reads...

John Murray Burriss, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,

Topeka Capital

An editorial paragraph in your issue of February 9 reads as follows: "'How to Avoid Sickness' is a headline of the Health Secrets department of the Fort Scott Tribune. The Christian Science way of high-hatting it has its points." Assuming that the word "high-hatting" was used in the sense of "ignoring," the implication is that Christian Science overcomes sickness by ignoring it. The reverse is the fact.

Christian Science declares that sickness is unreal, meaning by this that God is neither directly nor indirectly the cause of it, and that as God, divine Mind, is the only cause or creative power, sickness must be the product of the so-called mortal mind. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 411 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Disease is an image of thought externalized." In other words, disease is a false state of consciousness superimposed on the body, a condition induced by wrong thinking; and it can be overcome only by destroying the wrong thoughts which are causing the discord. Therefore, instead of ignoring sickness, Christian Science goes directly to the bottom of the trouble and through the prayer of spiritual understanding removes its underlying cause.

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