Article March 26, 1938 Issue

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An interesting article in your recent issue, under the...

B. Palmer Lewis, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—Buffalo

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An interesting article in your recent issue, under the caption "Science—Mind over Matter," attracted my attention. In speaking of the experiments carried on by two psychologists of the public health service, you have graciously given Mary Baker Eddy credit for the founding of the Christian Science religion. You also mention the instantaneous healing of Mrs. Eddy, solely by spiritual means.

Mrs. Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 24), "My immediate recovery from the effects of an injury caused by an accident, an injury that neither medicine nor surgery could reach, was the falling apple that led me to the discovery how to be well myself, and how to make others so." She realized that her healing had taken place through the operation of divine law. Mary Baker Eddy, a genius in spiritual insight, seeking a knowledge of the law that had brought about her healing, turned to the Holy Bible for her answer. Therein she obtained a knowledge of divine law, and learned how, through obedience to the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, one may gain an understanding of spiritual law and apply it to the overcoming of problems facing mankind; namely, sin, sickness, poverty, and death.

On page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy has given to mankind "the scientific statement of being," the most profound statement that has been uttered since the Master preached, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." When Mrs. Eddy gave to the world this statement, which begins, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter," the public, press, and physicists derided and condemned the statement; the pulpit scorned the gentle Discoverer of this great truth, yet it was impossible for her opponents to refute or deny the many healings brought about through Christian Science.

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