Article October 15, 1938 Issue

In her column, "Give Me Your Thought, ..." as it...

Austin E. Page, Committee on Publication for the State of New Hampshire,

Concord Monitor

In her column, "Give Me Your Thought, ..." as it appeared in a recent issue, the columnist presents an interesting discussion relative to the mental nature of pain and the possibility of crowding it out of consciousness by controlling the thought. Developing her thesis by citing examples which illustrate that pain is a mental condition, towards the end of her article she asks if it is too much further to go to say that pain does not exist at all, and then she writes, "That is the basis of Christian Science thinking, both in respect to illness and evil."

Left without further explanation, this statement concerning Christian Science might mislead some of your readers with regard to the teachings of this religion, and I should therefore appreciate space to add a few explanatory remarks.

Christian Science does indeed teach that pain is mental—discordant thinking—but the Christian Scientist knows that he cannot scientifically cast it out of his consciousness on the frail basis of human will power. The human mind cannot cure what the human mind has, in belief, caused. Thought must be lifted to a higher source—to the infinite divine Mind, or God, the governing Principle of the universe, including man. Writing on this subject on page 270 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has this to say: "If a sense of disease produces suffering and a sense of ease antidotes suffering, disease is mental, not material. Hence the fact that the human mind alone suffers, is sick, and that the divine Mind alone heals."

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