Article March 29, 1930 Issue

In a reprinted article entitled "Mind Cure," which appeared...

Oscar Graham Peeke, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,

Dexter Statesman

In a reprinted article entitled "Mind Cure," which appeared in the Dexter Statesman, date of January 24, apt illustrations are given of the influence of the so-called human mind on the physical body. There is a reference to Christian Science, however, which might leave the impression that Christian Science healing is accomplished by the power of the human mind, the term "Christian Science" being coupled in the article with a system which teaches mental healing in an altogether different manner. The reference is as follows: "If the mind cure of Christian Science and new-thought could be divorced from their unorthodox theologies they would merit a large following."

Now the word "orthodox" is subject to variable interpretation, but, presumably, in this case by the term "unorthodox theologies" are meant teachings about God which differ from those doctrines that are hedged about by the creeds and dogmas of scholastic theology. I should like to point out that the religion of Christian Science is the religion of primitive Christianity as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus and his early followers. It was largely by the introduction of ritualism and dogma that the healing art of primitive Christianity was lost. Christian Science has brought about the restoration of this important part of Christ's Christianity. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has clearly elucidated the divine lawas of healing.

Healing in Christian Science is not accomplished by the influence of one human mind over another, in other words, through mental suggestion, but by the spiritual understanding of God, or the one omnipotent divine Mind, and of the laws governing His universe. This is what differentiates Christian Science healing from all other methods. Scientific mental healing in its true sense is spiritual healing, and must therefore conform to the method of Christ Jesus, who said, "I can of mine own self do nothing;" and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." It is evident that by these sayings the Master implied that by no mental power of his own, but by keeping his consciousness filled with the realization of God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, was he enabled to be a channel for health and harmony. This state of consciousness is what the Apostle Paul reffered to when he admonished, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." To do this requires consercration and unselfed love, and it is a prerequisite of Christian Science practice.

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