Article December 19, 1931 Issue

In Aftenposten of the 9th inst. a bishop has an article...

Nils A. T. Lerche, Committe on Publication for Norway,—Oslo (translation)

Aftenposten

In Aftenposten of the 9th inst. a bishop has an article entitled "Soul Hygiene," wherein among other things he refers to Christian Science. As his explanation of this subject evidently is based on second-hand knowledge and is not correct, I beg space for some remarks.

It is a mistake to say that the magnetic healing method and so-called "mind-cure" "merged into a religious trend in Christian Science." Christian Science is essentially different from the former, and has no connection with them. It is true that Mrs. Eddy in 1862 was treated by the magnetizer Quimby, and that she was healed by him, although the healing was not permanent. But Mrs. Eddy's fall on the ice, to which the bishop refers, happened in 1866, after Quimby's death. It was during her reading of the Bible some days later that she was suddenly healed from the effects of that accident, and this healing led to the discovery of Christian Science.

Christian Science is based on the Bible. Whereas "mind-cure" and similar methods depend on the application of suggestion and human will-power, healing through Christian Science is the result of vital Christian faith coupled with a spiritual understanding of man's true selfhood and its relation to God, and of God's omnipotence and omnipresence. Thus Christian Science is not "mind-cure" which has been "closely linked to a Christianly colored religiousness." It is Christianity, which includes both healing of sickness and forgiveness of sin, as was the case with the original Christian church.

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