Article February 19, 1938 Issue

In your esteemed newspaper for April 27, 1937, there...

Percy Hisson Tamm, Committee on Publication for Sweden,

Borås Tidning

In your esteemed newspaper for April 27, 1937, there appeared an article reviewing a lecture, in which the lecturer attacks different items which he places under the heading of quackery; but his including of Christian Science in this category and talking of its "medical" method, evinces an erroneous conception of this teaching and its way of working. Christian Science does not use any "medical" method, but heals entirely through spiritual understanding, based on the teachings of the Bible, in which the power of God is the only factor reckoned with, healing and blessing, making whole and holy simultaneously.

The impression the lecturer would convey, namely, that healer and patient together concentrate upon the error, is not at all the case, but in direct opposition to the real facts. On the contrary, thought is centered on the all-power of God, good, and this manifests itself in such a way as to drive out error in whatever form it may appear. Indeed, the fact that the body is governed by our thinking, is now more or less generally acknowledged by physicians, who prescribe medicines in far less degree than heretofore, and instead take into consideration the mental disturbances back of the disease.

When one states that Christian Science denies the existence of sickness, one should bear in mind that we are forced to use the same language when dealing with things belonging to the spiritual universe as when dealing with things pertaining to the material world. Mrs. Eddy says, therefore, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being." But in the absolute, the perfect, creation recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, where all that God created is declared good, there is no imperfection, no evil.

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