In a review of a certain booklet some statements in your...

Percy Hesson Tamm, Committee on Publication for Sweden,

Sydsvenska Dagbladet

In a review of a certain booklet some statements in your paper give such a misconception of the teachings of Christian Science that I am impelled to request space for the following correction.

The reviewer of the booklet alleges that Christian Science teaches that both sin and sickness exist only so far as we will have them, and that all we need to do is simply to will the good and then everything will be all right.

Healing in Christian Science is in no way an act of will power. Christian Science maintains that all human suffering and inharmony can traced to three sources—sin, fear, or ignorance, ignorance of the law of God, good. Christian Science also teaches that the understanding and application of this law gives man dominion over everything that conflicts with it.

On pages 471 and 472 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Founder of the movement, Mary Baker Eddy, writes, "This Science teaches man that God is the only Life, and that this Life is Truth and Love; that God is to be understood, adored, and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out suppositional error and heals the sick."

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