Article May 23, 1936 Issue

Your columnist, "H. H.," takes great liberty with the age-old...

Louis N. Denniston, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,—Greenwich

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Your columnist, "H. H.," takes liberty with the age-old acceptance of God as the Supreme Being when, in his column in your issue of November 14, he implies that the Greek god, Aesculapius, was a foreunner of Deity by whom the more successful and respected members of the medical profession are inspired. But when he links Christian Science with the worship of the ancient pagan god, he knows not what he says.

All who reverence God as universal, eternal, divine Love, as taught in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, consider the facetious comments about the healing art as a challenge to arouse your readers to protest. Will you not, therefore, open your columns to one whose privilege it is to see daily the evidence that the one true God is still working through man His wonders to perform?

The healing works of Christian Science are wrought by radical reliance on God and are not in any sense based on a reverence for a pagan god, or any other idolatrous worship. To the Christian Scientist God is Love, who is of "purer eyes than to behold evil," and cannot "look on iniquity." The model and inspiration for all Christian Scientists is Christ Jesus, who taught his immediate followers to heal the sick and raise the dead as signs of their faith and understanding. Mark quotes Jesus as saying, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." This is practical today, and is being proved continually. Following the Master is not a pagan practice, but requires holding to a perfect Principle, as shown in the command, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

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