Article September 19, 1936 Issue

In your issue of November 9, in "The Raconteur"...

John Laughton, Committee on Publication for the Province of Quebec, Canada,—Montreal

Gazette

In your issue of November 9, in "The Raconteur" column, Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science were incorrectly associated with Mesmer and his theories. May I respectfully ask space in your paper for a correction? The statement was made that Mary Baker Eddy "hated him like poison." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was a spiritually-minded woman and a consecrated student of the Bible, and hated no one. On page 4 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mrs. Eddy writes, "A genuine Christian Scientist loves Protestant and Catholic, D. D. and M. D.,—loves all who love God, good; and he loves his enemies."

Christian Science is a religion founded on the Scriptures and is not to be confused with Mesmer's theory of mental suggestion, or hypnotism, which is the exercise of the human will and is based on the belief that there are minds many which are supposed to exert an influence on other so-called minds for either good or evil. Neither mental suggestion nor hypnotism enters into the practice of Christian Science, which is the one purely spiritual method of healing. On page 375 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Christian Scientist demonstrates that divine Mind heals, while the hypnotist dispossesses the patient of his individuality in order to control him. No person is benefited by yielding his mentality to any mental despotism or malpractice." And she adds, "The genuine Christian Scientist is adding to his patient's mental and moral power, and is increasing his patient's spirituality while restoring him physically through divine Love."

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