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In reply to your correspondent's letter of May 28, I shall quote the words of Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 231), "If God heals not the sick, they are not healed, for no lesser power equals the infinite All-power; but God, Truth, Life, Love, does heal the sick through the prayer of the righteous." The only healing is divine healing.
Your correspondent, after quoting from the Christian Science textbook referred to above, concludes (and rightly): "It is quite clear that sin and disease are goods which mortal mind holds. Destroy disease in the mind and the disease is thoroughly cured." And then he asks, "Is this cure by mortal mind or not?" In Christian Science healing, the error in mortal mind is always destroyed by Truth, never by any operation of mortal mind, such as suggestion. Christian Science reveals the fact that the mortal or carnal mind does not and cannot contain a cure for its own errors. Jesus answered this question himself when he was accused of casting out devils "by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." The whole story is recorded in Matthew and gives the spiritual method of healing employed by Jesus: "If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." Christian Science employs this same method and is making God real to men.
"The carnal mind is enmity against God," says the Bible, and only a knowledge of God as the one infinite, indivisible Mind can destroy the errors of the carnal mind. Truth always has destroyed and always will destroy error. It is as impossible to heal by suggestion as it is to solve a mathematical problem by suggestion. Said Jesus, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." In other words, nothing is real or enduring of which God is not the author. Jesus declared positively that other men can do spiritual healing in the way he did. The belief that Jesus exercised a power peculiar to himself is one which he refuted explicitly and repeatedly.
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May 11, 1935 issue
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The Lord's Prayer
BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE
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Love Alone Solves All Human Problems
CHARLES F. HACKETT
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Learning to Use the Concordances
EMMA H. SAYLES
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Constructive Argument
WINSTON G. MITCHELL
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Giving
EUGENE HUDGINS
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"And there was a great calm"
D. MURIEL SAVARY
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Greater than Circumstances
E. OLIVE DAVIS
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A Child's Prayer
MARGARET MILLER COPELAND
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In your issue of August 2, an article mentioned a certain...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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Permit me to add something to what you said of Christian Science...
Meinrad Schnewlin, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland,
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In reply to your correspondent's letter of May 28, I...
Albert J. Windle, Committee on Publication for Nottinghamshire, England,
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It is evident from the subsequent letters appearing in...
C. Shelton Agar, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,
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Immanuel
IVA B. LINEBARGER
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Rightful Spiritual Nutriment
Duncan Sinclair
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Formidableness
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Cora M. Gowell
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When Christian Science was presented to me by a friend...
Elvena Gates with contributions from Alva Francis Gates
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For several years I searched many books, including those...
Ethel Phillips
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Six years ago, when I was given up by doctors, my family...
Addie M. Bates
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In thankfulness for the great help which I have received...
Wilhelmine Kröger
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I desire to express my gratitude for the many blessings...
Clyde S. Bugbee
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Paul said, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your...
Marie Osterland
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Under the marginal heading "Recognition of benefits,"...
Lewis A. Wilson
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It is about twelve years since Christian Science was first...
Elsie Thomas with contributions from Francis G. Thomas
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These, My Brethren
CHARLES EDWIN ANDERSON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from T. F. Opic, Oliver C. Quick, Harold E. Carlson