Article January 16, 1932 Issue

The remarks made by a clergyman in a church meeting...

Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,

Halifax Courier and Guardian

The remarks made by a clergyman in a church meeting in Halifax, and reported in your issue of the 7th inst., that "Christian Science is autosuggestion attempted by religious means," discloses an ignorance of Christian Science from which an intelligently accurate statement is impossible.

The teaching of Christian Science can no more be likened to autosuggestion than can the teaching of Jesus, upon which it is based. Autosuggestion is an activity of the carnal mind, and is opposed to the Christianity of Jesus. It deals only with the false supposition that man is separated from God, and controlled apart from God. The power Christian Science demonstrates is of God, not of man.

Jesus taught that "the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do," and that "it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Prayer in Christian Science is not autosuggestion, but the means whereby we may reach our divine inheritance—our limitless resources of Life and Love. It is the spiritual realization of God's all-power and presence, and the utilization of our natural ability to demonstrate these divine facts.

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