Article May 29, 1937 Issue

The references, direct or implied, which a clergyman...

Guy Haldane Dempster, Committee on Publication for Egypt,—Alexandria

Egyptian Gazette

The references, direct or implied, which a clergyman makes in the article which appeared in your issue of the 12th instant under the above heading [Telepathy and Clairvoyance] may mislead some of your readers regarding the nature of Christian Science healing. May I therefore be permitted to submit the following correction.

Emphatically, Christian Science does not tolerate, overtly or privily, the use of suggestion in any form.

Twice a year occurs in the series of Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly which are read in all Christian Science churches the subject, "Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced." In her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy devotes a whole chapter, namely that entitled "Animal Magnetism Unmasked," to the subject of what is generally known as mesmerism. There she writes (p. 101), "If animal magnetism seems to alleviate or to cure disease, this appearance is deceptive, since error cannot remove the effects of error."

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