Article September 2, 1939 Issue

I regret that I have found in a recent bulletin a reference...

Marcel G. Silver, Committee on Publication for France,—Paris (translation)

Agence Technique de la Presse

I regret that I have found in a recent bulletin a reference to Christian Science, the implications of which are erroneous. Christian Science has nothing in common with suggestion or autosuggestion. Evil, whatever the form under which it is manifested in human experience, is itself suggestion—suggestion which, no doubt, presents the appearance of reality to the one who suffers from it. But, nevertheless, it is only suggestion; and happily so, for if it were reality, would it not be absurd to try to destroy it?

By dispelling suggestion, by liberating individual consciousness from erroneous mortal influences, Christian Science not only restores men to health, but gives them an understanding of their true spiritual identity.

On page xi of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, of which this work is the textbook, writes this: "Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing in Christian Science present only a phase of the action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary, Christian Science rationally explains that all other pathological methods are the fruits of human faith in matter,—faith in the workings, not of Spirit, but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science."

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