"Error is close upon the heels of Truth." The issue between the exponents of Truth and the exponents of error is becoming more and more sharply defined. It has taken definite form as between Truth-healing, and that which simulates it. In other words, the effort of those opposed to Christian Science healing, as taught and practised by the founder of Christianity,—Christ Jesus,—would seem to be to substitute what plainly is mere mind-cure, or, more strictly speaking, mesmerism or hypnotism, for genuine healing.
Mind-curists, mesmerists, and hypnotists—three in one—are advocates of and believers in the power of mortal mind, or the human mind, to heal disease. Their effort manifestly is to exalt mortal mind to the standard of the divine Mind, while Christian Science teaches the allness of the one Mind—God; that there is no other power for saving and no other healing efficacy than God, the universal Mind. The true Christian Science healer, therefore, heals not by any power within his own mind, but by reflecting the divine Mind. The whole effort of the Christian Scientist is to subordinate mortal self to the one Mind. This is the plain and emphatic teaching of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as well as all the other writings of the author of the textbook, the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy. No one, in a fairly intelligent and unbiased manner, can read her writings, without seeing most clearly that her every premise, deduction, and conclusion, is based upon God as the All-power, and that the only power possessed by man is that which he reflects of and from the All-power—God.
Only as the human mind is able to distinguish between mortal man, or the man of which the material or physical senses take cognizance, and the real man, who is the inseparable idea or reflection of the divine Mind, can it come into the understanding of the divine law of healing. Christ Jesus manifestly understood this distinction, and was able thereby to prove the law by healing the sick, destroying sin, and raising the dead. It is evident that he relied not upon the human mind, or any power within himself, for he repeatedly declared that all the power he possessed was derived from the Father. He, therefore, was neither mind-curist, mesmerist, nor hypnotist, but in the truest and broadest sense, a divine healer.
