Recently there appeared in the columns of your paper an...

William Carson Blackburn, Committee on Publication for the State of North Carolina,—Burlington

Daily Times-News

Recently there appeared in the columns of your paper an article in which it is alleged that a colored woman, living in Burlington, "practiced a sort of Christian Science on several." Of course, you are glad to give necessary space for the correction of possible misunderstanding on the part of your many interested readers.

An interview by the writer with this woman revealed that she is not a Christian Scientist, and knows nothing whatsoever about the fundamental teachings of Christian Science. She, according to her own statement, attended Christian Science church services in a northern city only a few times, and that some fifteen years ago.

So-called "hexing," bewitchery, or any other form of hypnosis, whether employed ignorantly or maliciously, is no part of and has no relationship to Christian Science. Christian Science is the Christian religion, based wholly on the Bible. It can only bless, as it is based on the Christ, Truth, and practiced in a Christianly scientific manner. For its successful application, one should be imbued with purity, truth, and love, and instructed in the Science of metaphysical healing.

This is definitely supported by innumerable and convincing statements to be found in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. The one citation here quoted from page 446 will serve to illustrate: "Whoever practises the Science the author teaches, through which Mind pours light and healing upon this generation, can practise on no one from sinister or malicious motives without destroying his own power to heal and his own health. Good must dominate in the thoughtsof the healer, or his demonstration is protracted, dangerous, and impossible in Science. A wrong motive involves defeat."

The slightest search of the Scriptures reveals that Jesus cast out devils (evils) and healed the sick without the use of drugs, hypnotherapy, sorcery, or divination. The whole trend of Mrs. Eddy's teachings is to glorify God, Spirit, as the one and only cause, and "to commemorate the word and works of our Master" in a church which will "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (see Manual of The Mother Church, p. 17).

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