Article May 31, 1930 Issue

It is characteristic of Christian Scientists that they are...

Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,—Birmingham

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It is characteristic of Christian Scientists that they are good-natured and not easily given to resentment. They also appreciate and enjoy the qualities of good humor and wit, and the little pleasantries of life, including a good, clean joke.

But they fail to see that their religion should bear the brunt of such jokes as imply the imagining of a thing to be true when it is not true. For instance, a well-known writer to your columns the other day wrote the recipe for an egg facial as a beauty aid. The writer, after recommending the use of this lotion, suggests that the persons adopting this beauty aid must then know themselves to be beautiful, adding that "this is where Christian Science steps in." Why should there be such irrelevance?

Christian Science is a religious teaching based upon the word and works of Christ Jesus. It is not a process of autosuggestion, nor of mortal-mind manipulation. The common misconception of Christian Science as being a process of imagining a thing to be true when it is not true, needs to be corrected. Mrs. Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 144): "Human will-power is not Science. Human will belongs to the so-called material senses, and its use is to be condemned." "Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, 'Peace, be still.' "

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