"I desire to express my gratitude to God for His many blessings to me during the past five years of military service, as I feel that I owe to Christian Science the fact that I am alive to-day.
In the Weekly Scotsman there appeared a short article by "Physician," entitled "Subconsciousness," which conveyed the impression that the practice of Christian Science is a process of suggestion.
As Christian Science proves itself to be the most efficacious existing means of overcoming sin and its consequent sickness, disease, and so forth, and as it operates entirely through an understanding of the teaching of Christ Jesus, it should by no means be classed as a form of infidelity and denounced, as appears to have been done by a contributor in a recent issue.
Christian Science does not teach any use of the so-called human mind,—suggestion, mesmerism, hypnotism, occultism, spiritualism, or any degree or measure of so-called mental influence.
It is probable that if a hundred persons were asked to explain what they believe health to be, ninety-nine at least would agree that it is a state of the body from which disease is absent.
It
was in a high school room during her first year of teaching in a small town that the writer began to put into practice the truth she was learning in Christian Science.
Woodrow Wilson
with contributions from Robert Lansing
The
season of the year has again arrived when the people of the United States are accustomed to unite in giving thanks to Almighty God for the blessings which He has conferred upon our country during the twelve months that have passed.
