Article January 20, 1917 Issue

If your correspondent in his recent lecture said anything...

Samuel Greenwood

Nanaimo (British Columbia) Free Press

If your correspondent in his recent lecture said anything that is true about Christian Science, I am glad of it. Certainly what the public needs is to be told the truth about this subject, but this is not likely to be had from its opponents.

The lecturer declares the source of his information to be a book written by "a distinguished member of the Boston bar," and upon this person's shoulders he lays the responsibility for his false utterances concerning Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy. That this author is a distinguished lawyer is evidently supposed to settle the question, but it is well to know that other distinguished lawyers have spoken and written from the opposite point of view; so there you are. It will be remembered that a much more distinguished member of the American bar than the one your correspondent refers to, lectured throughout the country a number of years ago, his published lectures comprising many volumes, and all in the endeavor to prove the Bible a mistake and Christianity a failure; yet the sale of the Bible has gone on increasing ever since. The effect of the present lawyer's utterances is likewise lost in the fact that the demand for the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, increases every year.

The chief claim to distinction for the author whom your correspondent takes as his authority, would appear to rest upon two noted lawsuits that he conducted against Mrs. Eddy, and in both of which he was badly defeated. Since that time he has devoted much of his attention to a campaign of misrepresentation and abuse directed against Mrs. Eddy, and against the Christian Science movement, which she founded. His statements have precisely the same value regarding Christian Science that the statements of Colonel Ingersoll had regarding the Bible and the Christian religion,—just that much and no more.

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