Letters November 1, 1975 Issue

Letters to the Press

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

R. Ross Collins—Reading, Pennsylvania

Eagle

[In a] recent letter on the report, "Berks Pastor Leads on Spiritual Frontier," [the writer] made reference to "spiritual mind healing" as a "technique" used by Christian Scientists.

Prayer in Christian Science is quite the opposite of using or applying one's own mental or "psychic" powers as described by the [Pastor], It was Mary Baker Eddy's own disappointment with techniques, and particularly with mind-cure, which led her to place total reliance on God as the healing power—and to found her Church on that basis.

It calls for a willingness to attribute all power to God, to seek first "the kingdom of God, and his righteousness." This search demands of a Christian Scientist the same Christianization of thought and life, the same willingness to leave the old for the new, that it did for Jesus' followers.

Knowing [the writer] intended no discredit of Christian Science, and in the interest of accuracy, we are confident he will not object to having this clarification brought to his attention.

R. Ross Collins Committee on Publication

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