Article October 25, 1930 Issue

In your issue of March 12 there is a very interesting...

Miss Maude A. Law, Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,—Bridgetown

Agricultural Reporter

In your issue of March 12 there is a very interesting article entitled "The Influence of Mind over Body," reprinted from the Crusader. In it, the reverend doctor makes some astounding admissions as to the effects of hypnotism, or the influence of the human mind on the body, —admissions that might throw light on many sudden deaths and unaccountable diseases, —and he goes on to propound the theory that suggestion is their cure, and calls this "Christian Science."

Permit me to say that Christian Science is the antithesis of suggestion, and that its students are definitely forbidden to learn hypnotism "on penalty of being excommunicated from this Church" (Church Manual, by Mary Baker Eddy, Art. XI, Sect. 9).

On the contrary, it draws a very clear line between the mortal or carnal mind, which the apostle describes as "enmity against God," and the divine Mind, or "the mind of Christ," which the Bible enjoins upon all men, and which Christian Science reveals as God.

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