There is wholesome food for thought in the helpful...

Francis Lyster Jandron, former Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,

Detroit Westward

There is wholesome food for thought in the helpful article on faith and mental healing in "The Life Abundant" column of your June 7 issue. The writer's allusion to Christian Science needs explanation, however, as it may wrongly lead readers to suppose that Christian Science acts through suggestion or the human will. Such a conclusion is very far from the truth.

Mrs. Eddy, on page 162 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," describes the action of Christian Science in these striking words: "Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies." She continues, "The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind." It can readily be seen that faith in materiality can never regenerate the moral or spiritual state of a patient. Christian Scientists do not underestimate the importance and necessity of faith as a corrective of discordant bodily conditions, but they insist that faith in an understood God can alone bring permanent healing. To know God as the omnipotent creator, all-knowing and ever present, whose creation is spiritual, intact, and good, will do more to save mankind from sin and disease than blind personal faith can ever do. As your correspondent points out, the seeds of sickness are sown in mental impressions. Spiritual understanding sets the patient free from these discordant impressions and destroys their physical consequences.

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