Article September 4, 1937 Issue

In the Western Evening Herald of February 16, under...

Capt. John W. E. Gilhespy, Committee on Publication for Devonshire, England,—Plymouth

Western Evening Herald

In the Western Evening Herald of February 16, under the heading "The Perfect Peptician," your contributor, "Wayfarer," first of all quotes: "As a man 'thinketh in his heart, so is he," and, "There is nothing either good or bad. but thinking makes it so"; and then goes on to say, "I fear that even the most advanced Christian Scientist, for example, would be sorely tried to persuade himself that a jumping molar was but a figment of the imagination."

May I be allowed to point out for the benefit of your readers that Christian Scientists do not look upon disease or pain merely as products of the imagination.

May I also point out that the quotations which "Wayfarer" has used are susceptible of a somewhat more profound interpretation than his application of them suggests. The generally accepted view is that the body governs consciousness; and this seems so self-evident (especially when a molar is jumping) as to be beyond argument. But the Science of Christianity reverses this testimony of the material senses.

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