In your issue of the 24th instant your contributor writing...

Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,

Harrogate Journal

In your issue of the 24th instant your contributor writing under the heading "Which is the True Gospel?" says, "Other names synonymous with the science of health 'gospel' are 'mental healing,' 'hypnotism,' 'mind cures,' 'theosophy,' 'Christian Science.'"

Christian Science has no relation to any of the abovementioned theories. The teaching of Christian Science is neither mesmeric nor hypnotic, and it is based on the Bible, making clear the practice of primitive Christianity. It reveals God to be the only Mind, in accordance with Bible revelation, and teaches obedience to the First Commandment. It is this reliance on divine Mind which separates Christian Science from other systems of mental therapeutics.

Writing in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says (p. 104): "Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action,—evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism."

Healing is accomplished in Christian Science through the understanding of Truth, which Mrs. Eddy teaches is as available to-day as when our Master demonstrated it nineteen centuries ago.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found—in loving obedience.—George Eliot.

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