Article December 28, 1940 Issue

In the "Evening Meditations" column of a recent issue of...

J. Palmer Snelling, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,—Americus

Times-Recorder

In the "Evening Meditations" column of a recent issue of your esteemed paper, the writer of the article entitled "The Impregnable Rock of Scripture" made, I regret to say, some extremely misleading statements regarding the teachings of Christian Science, as set forth by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Many of your readers have doubtless read this epoch-making book, which, through its "key," has so illumined the Bible as to make it an "impregnable rock" indeed to thousands of men and women throughout the world. But for the benefit of those who may not have read the book, will you kindly allow me space for some corrective or explanatory remarks?

If this book has been the means of bringing to mankind a higher understanding of God, whereby mortals are made better morally, physically, and spiritually, surely the fact that it was written by a woman weighs nought against it. As to the authority for the teachings contained in Science and Health, its author has stated (p. 126): "I have set forth Christian Science and its application to the treatment of disease just as I have discovered them. I have demonstrated through Mind the effects of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals of men, and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth."

Your contributor continued: "Science and Health ignores the curse of sin, makes light of it, only 'an error of mind.' " It would have been difficult to frame in so few words a statement more contrary to fact. Far from ignoring sin, or making light of it, Science and Health goes straight to the root of sin and exposes its spurious nature, showing mortals how to get rid of it through an understanding of God.

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