Article June 26, 1937 Issue

In the report of the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Oxford...

Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Glasgow

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In the report of the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Oxford in your issue of today, a clergyman classifies Christian Science along with Coueism and autosuggestion as examples of "several kinds of psychotherapy."

A dictionary defines psychotherapy as "treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion." Therefore, the classification of Christian Science under that heading calls for correction.

The notion that Christian Science healing presents some phase of the action of one human mind over another is a mistake. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written (p. 482): "Sickness is part of the error which Truth casts out. Error will not expel error. Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God."

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