Article March 8, 1930 Issue

Had the writer of the article called "The Dissension of Latter-Day Medicos,"...

Ralph B. Textor, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,—Cincinnati, Ohio

Eclectic Medical Journal

Had the writer of the article called "The Dissension of Latter-Day Medicos," in the May issue of your journal, followed his own advice, to be charitable toward a system of healing other than one's own, he would have avoided the misrepresentation of Christian Science and his undignified reference to its Discoverer and Founder in his opening paragraph.

Christian Science cannot by any means be characterized as "suggestive therapeutics." Indeed, the Christian Scientist, in effecting cures according to the teachings of this religion, does not do so on the basis of hypnotism or mental suggestion. Rather does he depend upon the healing power of God, through the efficacy of prayer, as practiced by the Master, Christ Jesus.

On page xi of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written: "Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing in Christian Science present only a phase of the action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary, Christian Science rationally explains that all other pathological methods are the fruits of human faith in matter,—faith in the workings, not of Spirit, but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science."

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