Article December 22, 1928 Issue

Although regretful that criticism of Christian Science was...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa, Pella

Baptist Record

Although regretful that criticism of Christian Science was given space in a recent issue of the Baptist Record, and on the front page of that publication, I appreciate your contributor's avowal of freedom from intentional unkindness, bigotry, and intolerance in connection with what he wrote. But for the information of your readers it is respectfully requested that you publish this brief correction of some of the erroneous assertions in our critic's remarks.

I would like to say that instead of denying the sufferings of Jesus on behalf of mankind, as was averred by our critic, Mrs. Eddy most reverently and gratefully acknowledges all that the Master did for mortals. She nowhere says or implies that "his suffering was a 'mortal error' in which he had fallen," as your contributor intimated. When speaking of Jesus' human experience Mrs. Eddy says, on page 38 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "his sufferings were the fruits of other people's sins, not of his own. The eternal Christ, his spiritual selfhood, never suffered." The last sentence of this quotation she wrote to explain that the Master's spiritual selfhood, "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever," was unaffected by Jesus' physical experience. But our critic's concept of Christ Jesus doubtless accounted for his misconception of Mrs. Eddy's statement and led him to conclude that Christian Science disregards the cross and suffering of the Saviour; this, of course, it does not do.

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