The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-14
Communication

To the Editor of the Cordova Times:
 Space was given in the editorial col umns of your paper of March 9th to an article taken from the Christian Century in which Christian Science was spoken of as being found by trained psychologists as having little difference either in methods or re- suits from the Coue system.
 Christian Scientists have no quar- rel with or criticism of any religious doctrine or any healing system. They grant every man the right to worship God according to his own conscience and to use the healing system he de- sires, and they claim the same right so to do, and while they have no pro- paganda to put forth and do not prose- lyte, they do desire that their religion be not misrepresented
 Your readers are probably as well acquainted with the Coue and other l systems of auto suggestion, mesmer- ism or hypnotism as I am, and l think that it is universally understood and admitted that such systems have to do entirely with mortal mind and mortal sense of things, while Christian Sci ence religion is based entirely on the divine Mind of God.
 l In Philippians 2: 5, 6 Paul says, 'Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not rob- bery to be equal with God" Paul also tells us in Romans 8: 6, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.'
 The Christian Science headings are brought about by the prayer Of un- derstanding, the understanding which includes a perfect God and perfect man,-the man made in Gods image and likeness, indestructable and eter- nal. On page 1 of Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, we are told that "1he prayer that reforms the sinner ana heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to Coda splr- itual understanding of Him, an un- selfish love-" and on page Of the same book. "Prayer cannot change the science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it." Which statements coincide with the state ment of Genesis that "God created man in his own image
 The Christian Science doctrine, which includes the command of the Master to ''heal the sick" is based ab- solutely on the teachings of the Bible, and Christian Scientists are, accord ing to the measure of their understand ing and unsettled love, following in His footsteps.
 In the same article in your paper, the word principle is not used as the Christian Scientists understand the word They do not speak of Ca prin- ciple,", but of Principle; the divine healing Principle which is God. Web- sters International Dictionary gives the following definition of principle: "Beginning; commencement; a source of origin; also, cause" and it is thus that Christian Scientists use the word Principle as a synonym of God,-the divinely creative cause and tender, loving, intelligent cause, the one and only cause of all that is real and eter- nal Mrs. Eddy answers the question 'Is there more than one Principle?' as follows: "There is not Principle, and it's idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient and omn1- present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe. Omni is adopt ed from the Latin adjective signifying all. Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence The varied manifestations of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter, and have one Principle" (Scence and Health, page 465).
 A. J. ADAMS,
 Publication Committee. l