Article March 12, 1938 Issue

In an issue of the News Times there appears a reprint...

Mrs. Agnes B. Vines, Acting Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia,—Melbourne

News Times

In an issue of the News Times there appears a reprint of an article which contains a misleading statement on the subject of the practice of Christian Science. I should be glad if you would grant space for this letter, which is intended to remove any false impression. The article states: "Savage medicine men ... also founded the school of suggestion, used hypnosis and psychoanalysis. ... The Christian Science practitioner does neither more nor less."

The following are two quotations from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the Christian Science movement, which speak for themselves on these points: "Between Christian Science and all forms of superstition a great gulf is fixed, as impassable as that between Dives and Lazarus" (p. 83); and, "Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot be reversed, but the reverse of error is true" (p. 442).

Christian Science defines God as Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, and the Christian Science practitioner has the authority of the Bible for declaring that God (good) is the sole creator, and that man in His image and likeness is therefore like his creator or source. "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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