Article June 2, 1934 Issue

From Letters, Substantially as Published

Your issue of January 7 carried a news item in which a...

Leicester LeMont Jackson, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,—Mobile

Press Register

Your issue of January 7 carried a news item in which a certain person was referred to as a "Christian Science practitioner and spiritualist," and since this is an impossible combination, and the reference falsely interprets both teachings, I ask space for making certain corrective observations.

To connect in thought the metaphysical healing, as practiced by Christian Scientists, with the physical phenomena of spiritualism, indicates unfamiliarity with either, or both, of these subjects. Christian Science practice, as the words imply, is the practice of the Science of Christ, and therefore it is wholly spiritual, even as the method of Jesus was spiritual. On page 178 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states, "Ignorant of the methods and the basis of metaphysical healing, you may attempt to unite with it hypnotism, spiritualism, electricity; but none of these methods can be mingled with metaphysical healing."

Recognizing that "out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not" contraries, James writes: "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."

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