Those who are best acquainted with the teachings of Christian Science know that instead of its being "vitiated with deadly and foolish error"—instead of its having a tendency to "make us the laughing-stock of the religious world"—the very opposite of these assertions is true.
Christian Science teaches intelligent obedience to the law of God as taught by the Founder of the Christian religion, which healed the sick then and does so now.
The direct and indirect influence of Christian Science is alone cutting noticeable inroads into the general percentage of drug sales; for this cult has taken from the druggist people in each community who were once his best customers—people of wealth with real or imaginary ailments that had made them steady patrons of the proprietary shelves or prescription counters.
If there is one thing that is absolutely certain, it is that Christian Science, so far from being based upon what is known as suggestion, is the very polar opposite to and exterminator of all forms of suggestion, or belief in the power of one human or mortal mind over another.
The writer of the letter on consumption very truly says that Christian Science teaches that disease exists simply in the mind, and that the physical manifestation is caused by mental conditions.
