Article May 5, 1980 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

with contributions from ALLISON W. PHINNEY, IAN GUNN

In the Preface of the Christian Science textbook, Mrs. Eddy has written (Science and Health, p. xi), "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." Many still do imagine this! In fact, persistent categorizing of Christian Science with forms of self-improvement, mind-over-matter, or some other wholly human line of reasoning is probably the misconception that Committees on Publication encounter most frequently. The misreading is more than a simple and easily explainable mistake. It is an imposition that would obscure, if it could, the original Christian basis for Christian Science healing. It would also totally hide the radical emphasis in Christian Science on the allness of divine Mind, or God. So correction is called for—in letters by CoPs, but also in the alert prayer of Christian Scientists everywhere.

In the Worcester Sunday Telegram Worcester Massachusetts

I'd like to comment on a false impression of Christian Science conveyed by an article in your newspaper June 20 entitled "Doctors Asked to Meet With Divine Healers."

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