Article October 8, 1932 Issue

Under the title "Health Logic" in the Bulletin of April 23,...

Mrs. Myrtle R. Biggins, Assistant to the Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,

Edmonton Bulletin

Under the title "Health Logic" in the Bulletin of April 23, an osteopathic physician has made some statements regarding Christian Science, Christian Scientists, and Mrs. Eddy which need correction.

Probably no one will disagree with the statement that "from times of greatest antiquity, the human race has been enthralled and chained by their fears." No one recognized this more clearly than Mrs. Eddy, and it became her life-purpose to help humanity to gain the spiritual enlightenment that would enable mankind to get rid of its fears and find freedom. This she knew could be done intelligently only through an understanding of God, instead of a blind, superstitious belief in an unknown supernatural power. Christian Scientists, instead of looking for and expecting a divine intervention in human affairs, whereby conditions may be changed according to human outlining, are endeavoring to conform their thinking to the divine law which was declared and proved by Christ Jesus, whereby they find health and harmony. That they are succeeding in doing this in large measure is evidenced by the proofs of healing of sin and so-called incurable diseases that have been given up by practitioners of other methods of treating disease.

Mrs. Eddy practiced homeopathy to some extent before she discovered Christian Science, but she states in her book that "her experiments in homoeopathy had made her skeptical as to material curative methods" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 152). In another one of her writings she states: "The difference between metaphysics in homoeopathy and metaphysics in Christian Science consists in this forcible fact: the former enlists faith in the pharmacy of the human mind, and the latter couples faith with spiritual understanding and is based on the law of divine Mind. Christian Science recognizes that this Mind is the only lawgiver, omnipotent, infinite, All" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 108). It can readily be seen from this statement that Mrs. Eddy's teaching and practice were wholly apart from "powerful mesmeric or hypnotic intellectualism."

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