The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
FROM THE PEOPLE.
Willis ID. McKinstry Defends Christian
Science Greed.

To the Editor of the Daily State
Journal:
Your editorial of yesterday says:
what the late Mrs. Eddy called
Christian Science has been renamed
by some medical specialists as the
New Hypnotism,' the scientific use of
mind influence for curative purposes
1t is true that through a misappre-
hension of the distinction Christian
Science makes between the SO-called
human mind and the divine mind a
certain class of medical specialists
would have the uninStructed public
believe that Christian Science and
hypnotism are one and the same thing.
Christian Science and hypnotism
bear no relationship whatever to each
other. Hypnotism is purely belief.
1t is the operation of the belief of
Sentient life and intelligence in mat
ter or one human mind Influencing
another mind, it is mental suggestion
or thought tranSference, and if used
by one class of thinkers for good, an
other class may use it for evil pur-
poses. To believe that thought can be
transmitted from one person to an
other, subjects the believer to the evil
conditions of such operation as well
as it's seeming good.
Christian Science has come to the
rescue and emancipates mankind
from this superstition and the wrongs
perpetuated through the belief of it's
power.
Christian Science teaches that God,
good is infinite and omnipotent; that
God is mind, hence the only mind;
that this mind was manifested in
Christ Jesus giving him dominion over
all physical, mental and moral condi-
lions of material existence.
The Master Physician gave mankind
the rule of salvation when he said,
This is life eternal that they might
know thee, the only true God and
hr-iC Vuh
hence it is to be understood that all
human discord, of whatever nature it
may assume, is the result of mortals
ignorant of God and the Christ. The
teachings of Christian Science give to
mortals the spiritual understanding of
scientific being; it is this knowing or
knowledge of God that destroys hu-
man ignorance of His law and the
perfect man made in His image and
likeness.
Christian Science maintains that
God is present and all power, that He
is the source of all activity, all life;
and that knowledge of this spiritual
fact destroys evils claim to presence,
activity of right thought about God
and man which destroys the wrong
thought or miSconception.
Health is a quality or an attribute
of divine mind, it is the activity of the
law of God, which is continuously
operative and is everywhere. This
kno ledge of spiritual truth applied
to human consciousness, not only de-
stroys the belief of sickness and dis
ease but meets humanity's needs, spir-
itually, mentally, morally, physically
and financially.
Mrs Eddy says in the text book of
Christian Science. Science and Health, !
page 116 "A correct view of Chris !
tan Science and of its adaptation to
healing includes vastly more than is at
first seen. Works on metaphysics
leave the grand point untouched. They |
never crown he power of Mind as the |
Messiah, nor do they carry the day
against physical enemies-even to the
extinction of all belief in matter, evil, |
disease and death-nOr insist upon
the fact that God is all, therefore |
that matter is nothing beyond an i'm
age in mortal mind.
Yours sincerely,
WILLIS D. McKINSTRY.