With
many others, brought up with loving care and solicitude for my spiritual welfare, I once believed that the healing effect which followed the act of the woman who pressed forward with eagerness to touch even the hem of the garment which Jesus wore, in order that she might be made whole of her malady, was due to the personal goodness of a man of flesh and blood, who in some supernatural way possessed healing power.
"In my name and in the name of all our poor, accept our heartfelt thanks for your generous donation, and be so kind as to convey also to the War Relief and Camp Welfare committee of The Mother Church the expression of our warmest gratitude.
A writer in your April issue on the subject of "Religion and Psychiatry" ridicules the healing done by Christian Science, and assigns as a reason for his ridicule that Christian Science "brings about cures through the same mechanism" as was used by Jesus and other Bible characters.
On reading an interesting article entitled "Reconstruction by the Spirit," I notice that the author has, probably quite unwittingly, alluded to Christian Science in a way calculated to mislead the thought of your readers as to its true nature and teaching.
Christian Scientists in general will be glad to note in the article "Mental Therapy Gaining," published in a recent issue, that intelligent discrimination is made between Christian Science healing and hypnotic suggestion as therapeutic agents.
As
the student of Christian Science journeys along the way leading from material sense to Soul, through the wilderness of human belief and fear, doubt and discouragement, he comes at times to that "certain place," which it is written that Jacob "lighted upon.
In
a recent conversation with a beginner in Christian Science, as we were discussing the silent prayer in church, she said she was so happy when she learned to pray for spiritual understanding, rather than for material things.
