Article January 4, 1930 Issue

Your issue of July 10 contains a report of the meeting...

Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,—Marysville

Appeal-Democrat

Your issue of July 10 contains a report of the meeting of the American Medical Association, which has just been held in Portland, Oregon. Doubtless many members of that great organization will regret that the incoming president so far forgot the dignity of his high office as to indulge his personal prejudice by attacking Christian Science—a religion which, it is now generally admitted, has given a notable impulse to health and morals throughout the civilized world during the past sixty years.

The doctor complains that Christian Science is among "the agencies whose influence takes people away from medical care." In fairness he should have explained that few persons turn to Christian Science until after they have exhausted medical means and in many cases have been advised by their physicians that they can do no more for them.

The fact that the doctor places Christian Science, Coue-ism, and faith-healing under the same head, indicates that in his investigation of Christian Science, if indeed he has investigated it, he has not followed the careful method of ascertaining facts ordinarily pursued in scientific research; otherwise, he would have learned that Christian Science has no relation or resemblance to Coueism (autosuggestion) or to faith-healing as generally understood. Christian Science is a religion based upon the teaching and works of Christ Jesus. Its treatment, which is both mental and spiritual, relies wholly on the power of Spirit to correct discordant conditions. This reliance is based on the recognition and realization that God, Spirit, is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, and that man and the spiritual universe reflect this infinite God. From this it will be seen that Christian Science necessarily eschews suggestion and all forms of mental manipulation.

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