Article August 1, 1936 Issue

In your last issue, under the heading "Imagination,"...

Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,

Bridlington Free Press

In your last issue, under the heading "Imagination," there appears a statement which may give to your readers an impression that Christian Science encourages its adherents "who are really ill to act as though they were not." The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is the authority on teaching and practice, and in it, under the marginal heading "Mischievous imagination," may be found the following statement (p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth to being." This is in conformity with the teaching of Christ Jesus, who, after first pointing out the necessity of strict adherence to the rules laid down by him, said, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The truth realized about God and about man made in His spiritual image and likeness destroys false human illusions about Him and His children, and correction of thought in this way finds expression upon the human body in restored health, harmony, and right activity.

Christian Science has brought happiness and health into the lives of thousands who had previously yielded to a sense of hopeless despair of ever being well again; therefore it is essential that the thought of mankind should not be prejudiced against it by misrepresentations which are the outcome of a failure to understand its true significance and importance.

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