There appeared in a recent issue an article under the...

William H. Owen, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,—Green Bay

Press Gazette

From Letters, Substantially as Published

There appeared in a recent issue an article under the heading "Business Gains Appear Sound." In the article the writer makes the statement: "There mere fact that enough people really expect a boom is bound to cause one. It is the greatest of demonstrations of one principle of Christian Science."

Lest by this statement your readers may be led to believe that the metaphysics of Christian Science is based on "suggestion" or "belief," may I be allowed sufficient space in your good paper to make a correction?

Christian Science has no affiliation whatsoever with suggestion, will power, or blind belief. Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, has defined Christian Science (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1) as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." Mrs. Eddy also writes, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 410, 206): "The Science of mental practice is susceptible of no misuse. Selfishness does not appear in the practice of Truth or Christian Science;" "The power of the human will should be exercised only in subordination to Truth; else it will misguide the judgment and free the lower propensities. It is the province of spiritual sense to govern man."

With the use of suggestion or will power, one might will evil as well as good, whereas in Christian Science God, good, is All-in-all.

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