Article October 31, 1936 Issue

A certain letter is misleading when it represents Christian Science...

William Wallace Porter, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—New York

Daily News

A certain letter is misleading when it represents Christian Science practitioners as "condemning doctors, bringing sorrow, grief, and expense to families; and leaving them flat when the case gets beyond the practitioner's control." These assertions do not represent the thought or attitude of a Christian Science practitioner. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, wrote (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 4): "A genuine Christian Scientist loves Protestant and Catholic, D. D. and M. D.,—loves all who love God, good; and he loves his enemies. It will be found that, instead of opposing, such an individual subserves the interests of both medical faculty and Christianity, and they thrive together, learning that Mind-power is good will towards men." Patients who go to Christian Science practitioners go of their own accord, and in many cases only after exhausting all that material systems of healing can offer them. At this point, instead of bringing "sorrow, grief, and expense," the Christian Science practitioner actually brings to the sufferer renewed hope and courage, and the knowledge of God's ever-available power to heal. If the writer in question will make known his grievance to me or any Christian Scientist, I am sure that any unfortunate misunderstanding which may have arisen will be brought to light and explained in a satisfactory way.

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