Letters May 22, 1954 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

with contributions from Colin R. Eddison, J. McLennan

The Listener London, England

It has been implied in recent letters ... that Christian Science was derived from the teachings of Phineas Quimby. Mr. Quimby was a mesmerist to whom Mary Baker Eddy went as a patient some years before she discovered Christian Science. She derived temporary benefit and has written appreciatively of his character. But he and his methods were not the origin of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science in 1866 was the result of her recovery from serious injuries caused by a fall. This experience led her to an intensive study of the Bible, as a result of which she found the spiritual laws underlying the healing work of Christ Jesus and his disciples.

Christian Science treatment is the application to human needs of spiritual law through prayer. It does not include hypnotism or mesmerism, or the control of one human mind over another, and is not, therefore, derived from any system of mesmerism or autosuggestion.

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