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seriousness, it is communion with the
infinite Father Mother God, it is true
Christian prayer, not my will. but
Thine, be done Such prayer is an
swered in healing the sick. reforming
the sinner ad in supplyig all our needs
Mind Action Not Mental Suggestion
THE healing power which Christ
Jesus utilized in his wonderful healing
work was not understood by the people
who witnessed these works. Some who
recognize the fact that this healing
was brought about through mental
means alone, refused to believe that
the healing power was divine and said
| that it was evil, acting drought the
human mind, namely through hypno-
! tism, saying This fellow doth not cast
out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince
of devils Matt. 1920.
$50 also today many admit that
| Christian Science heals mentally but
| they insist that this healing is accom-
plished through hypnotism. They do
not understand the nature and power
of divine mind.
Since Christian Science mind action
consists in the knowing of spiritual
truth, the recognition of material error
and the application of this truth there
| to, it is not mental suggestion, not the
| influence of one human mind over an
other. 1t is not mental domination
nor the exercise of the human will, and
it is essential to a right apprehension
of Christian Science that this should
be clearly understood.
For example: when mathemati-
clan correct a mathematical error it is
not his thought or will which makes
this correction, but the mathematical
truth which he knows and applies.
The power is inherent in the mathe-
NAUTICAL truth and not in the will of
the mathematician.
When an i'll or sin is healed in
Christian Science, it is not the thought
of the Christian Scientist which does
the healing but the spiritual truth
which he knows and applies to the
human error The power Is in the
truth itself and not in the human will.
Jesus said, 'Ye shall know the truth.
and the truth shall make you free
This definitely distinguishes Chris
tian Science from hypnotism, magne-
tism, or mental suggestion of any form.
A hypnotist endeavors to secure con-
troll of his patients mind. to dominate
it and to superimpose upon 1t his own
thought and purpose, be it good or
evil. Hence the danger of this method.
"a Christian Scientist, knowing the
nature of God and the real man as
spiritual and perfect, recognizes the
fact that the diseased or sinful condi-
tons are but false mesmeric states of
consciousness and brings divine truth
and love to bear thereupon. He knows
the unreality Of the appearance called
sick man, just as the mathematician
knows two times two do not make
five. even thiugh he sees it written out.
He knows that they make four. regard
less of appearance. So the Christian
Scientist knows there is no sick man
to be healed, but merely an erroneous
concept to be corrected. Said Jesus,
Judge not according to the appear
ance, but judge righteous judgment
Absent Treatment.
Healing patients who are at dis
lance from their practitioners has fire.
quently been misunderstood and pro-
nounced IMPOSSIBLE; nevertheless
Jesus healed the centurion's servant
and the nobleman's son without being
present with them. (See Matt. 8:5-13,
and John 4:46-53) This misjudgment
arises from the mistaken belief that
the healing is accomplished through