Article September 4, 1926 Issue

On at least three occasions during a recent revival, your...

Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,—Augusta

Chronicle

On at least three occasions during a recent revival, your valued paper has published statements by an evangelist wherein Christian Science has been misrepresented. The courtesy of your columns is therefore solicited for the following brief reply. Coupling Christian Science with theosophy, new-thought, and spiritualism, our critic displayed a complete lack of knowledge of the religion he essayed to attack. Christian Science contains not one trace of mental suggestion, psychotherapy, or mysticism. Conversely, the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, contains a chapter uncovering the fallacies of spiritualism, and furthermore its pages are replete with passages wherein the activities of mere mental suggestion are uncovered and denounced as producing sin, sorrow, disease, and other distressing circumstances. More-over, Christian Science has brought to its thousands of grateful adherents a demonstrable understanding of Paul's admonition. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Here the apostle spoke of divine intelligence, divine will, or, as Christian Science teaches, the divine Mind. It is the divine Mind, or God, which actuates, impels, guides, and governs every right motive and act of the Christian Scientist; and this Mind, which is Love, is the basic power in the many healings, moral and physical, which are experienced daily by those voluntarily seeking aid by means of the genuine practice of Christian Science.

The spiritually uplifting and beneficial results produced by Christian Science effectually refute the assertion by the evangelist that our religion is "independent of, and antagonistic to the church." Christ Jesus founded his church and maintained his work on the rock of spiritual healing. Accordingly, it is works rather than words which dominate the records of his brief history among men; those works which resulted in comforting the sorrowing, feeding the hungry, and healing all manner of sin and disease among the people. The Master was never found bolstering up something based mostly on theory. He taught by giving practical proof that God is good, and that man is His spiritual image and likeness. Christian Scientists are endeavoring humbly to let their sincerity and fidelity to God and His Christ be expressed by deeds more than in words. "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Whatever there may be of the evangelist's belief that women are not chosen to be great spiritual leaders, it does not alter the fact that branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, founded by Mary Baker Eddy less than fifty years ago, to-day are established in most parts of the civilized world. The ever increasing membership of this church is constituted mainly of those who have not found in worn-out scholastic beliefs that spiritual impulsion which reveals a demonstrable understanding of God's power, presence, and availability to meet every human need—an understanding whereby the healing of sin, surcease from pain, recovery from lack, and freedom from physical deformity are accomplished daily by purely spiritual means. On page 26 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says: "Our Master taughtno mere theory, doctrine, or belief. It was the divine Principle of all real being which he taught and practised. His proof of Christianity was no form or system of religion and worship, but Christian Science, working out the harmony of Life and Love."

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