Article October 22, 1932 Issue

A book review in a recent issue of your paper states...

George C. Eames, Committee on Publication for the State of Maine,—Portland

Evening News

A book review in a recent issue of your paper states that an author has analyzed the lives of Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, and Sigmund Freud, and would imply that their teachings are similar. The reviewer says, "There is a great similarity between all forms of curing whether practiced by the tom-tom beater or the modern physician."

There is one method of treating disease which bears no resemblance to mesmerism, mental suggestion, or the mysticism of primitive tribes, and that is the Christian healing which Christ Jesus taught and practiced centuries ago, and which has been made practical for humanity's use through the discovery of its divine Principle by Mary Baker Eddy, and which she has named Christian Science.

Christian Science has no relation to mesmerism, hypnotism, or mind cure, or other mortal illusions induced by the exercise of the human will. In writing on this subject Mrs. Eddy has said (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 181, 182): "Any hypnotic power you may exercise will diminish your ability to become a Scientist, and vice versa. The act of healing the sick through divine Mind alone, of casting out error with Truth, shows your position as a Christian Scientist."

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