Article February 8, 1930 Issue

In the editorial column of your issue of August 13, under...

William K. Kitchen, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—Union City

Hudson Dispatch

In the editorial column of your issue of August 13, under the heading "Normal People Are Usually Happy," a doctor is quoted as saying in part: "When unhappiness exists there should be a search for disease somewhere in the offing—either mental or physical," and that "mere negation of this pessimistic mental attitude is a long step in the direction of lifting the burden of misery. . . . Perhaps this is the germ of efficiency in such cults as Christian Science and Couèism — using the term `cult' in no opprobrious sense."

Permit me to inform the readers of the Hudson Dispatch and thus correct any possible erroneous impression regarding the teachings of Christian Science, that reliance upon "mere negation" by the human so-called mind as an efficient remedial agency for the removal of unhappiness or sickness, whether mental or physical, is not in accord with the Principle and practice of the Christian Science religion as discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy.

While Christian Scientists respect every good and helpful endeavor having for its purpose the alleviation of unhappiness and suffering, the adherents of this religion rely solely upon spiritual means or prayer to God, in accordance with the teachings of Christ Jesus, to heal mankind from all unhappiness or sickness—in fact from all the ills "that flesh is heir to."

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