Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-11
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
IS ANTI CHRISTIAN
That Like Pharaos Magicians Hypnosn anf
Suggestion Seek to Initiate Divine Healing-Christian
Science Rejects the Emmanuel Church Methods

employed by Jesus, and taught by Mn
to his Disciples, and practised by thz
Christian church during the first thref
centuries, for the following reasons.
FIrst-Jesus did not at any time say
chat it was necessary for a physician
to diagnose case before he healed II
and there is no Scriptural authority rol
so doing.
Second-Jesus did not limit his heal
ing work to functional nervous disor-
ders," nor did ne so command his fol-
lowers to do. He healed all kinds OF
diseases and his command to his fol-
lowers was to &C forth land preach the
Gospel and heal the sick" If any
clergyman admits that the Bible lays
upon his church the duty to heal the
sick then he can find no Scriptural au-
thority for limiting the healing to any
particular kind of disease.
Third-Jesus did not operate in con-
junction with physicians, but, on the
contrary, he healed independent OF
physicians and without drugs, and nc
Scriptural authority can be found fol-
mingling his method of healing with
the drugging system.
Fourth-Jesus healed by Spiritual
means only and not by Suggestion" OF
"auto-suggestion.' Both Jesus and his
Disciples raised the dead, and in con-
nection with a dead person there car
be neither suggestion" nor "auto-sug-
gestion."
Christian Science is squarely opposed
to Christian Psychology" and the
Emmanuel church method" on each
of these four propositions. If they say
that Jesus used suggestion to work his
cures they are making the same charge
against him that was made by his
enemies when they said that he cast
out devils through Beelzebub. Prof
Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard uni
versity has said in a recent magazine
article that it is impossible to tell where
hypnotism shades off into suggestion
From this it is seen that suggestion is
but an early stage of hypnotism before
complete hypnosis is produced. The
clergymen who now call suggestion the
Christ method of healing the sick ano
proclaim that they intend to use 1t In
their churches In connection with
physicians, had best beware lest the
physicians refuse to become parties tc
such procedure. Leading members OF
the medical profession are now going
on record as saying that hypnotism in
all of its forms is a dangerous thing
and should be left alone. DR.. Solomon
Soils Cohen in an article entitled 1.-THE
Future of Medicine" appearing in q
recent magazine says: 'Hypnotisn
probably does more harm than good
and, despite It's acknowledged power
in certain cases, is condemned by the
sober consensus of contemporary pro-
fessioral opinion. At best it drives out
Satan by Beelzebub, substituting one
abnormal state for another" To the
same effect is the statement of Prof
Munsterberg that hypnotism is capa-
BILE of causing every crime except MUIR
der, and he is not sure that murder
should be excepted. Yet these Christian
ministers seriously claim that hypno-
tism was the power used by Jesus tc
heal the sick! Christian Science OPP
poses hypnotism and suggestion under
all circumstances and asserts that they
are the very antipodes of Biblical heal.
ing. Christian Scientists welcome al
| who will engage in the healing worl
as practised and taught by Jesus, blu
| they denounce all limitations that ar,
founded upon hypnotism, mesmerism
| suggestion or auto-suggestion. Tht
| difference between the Christ method
and these may be summed up in one
sentence, that the forces by which
Christ wrought his mighty work were
spiritual and not material, as pointed
out By the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy
the discoverer and founder of Christian
Science, in her book Science and
Health, with Key to the Scriptures"