Article May 18, 1899 Issue

As to Answering Attacks upon Christian Science

We receive many requests for permission to answer attacks upon Christian Science by the ministers and others in various parts of the Field. We will say that local Scientists are at entire liberty to use their own best judgment, with reference to answering such attacks. If they deem it wise and for the best interests of the cause, locally considered, to make proper and Christianly reply to unjust attacks, it is their privilege to do so without special permission from any one at headquarters. Let there be no recrimination, but only fair argument and deduction, and such explanation as will tend to remove the misapprehensions of Christian Science, its teaching, purposes, practices, etc.

The criticisms of Christian Science, to any one having even a small understanding of its teaching, are so manifestly founded on misconception, that the student of Christian Science, at a glance, sees the critic is battling, not with Christian Science, but his own erroneous conception of it. He is fighting, as it were, his own thought, and not that of the Christian Scientists. The chief purpose of articles replying to attacks should be to arouse the critic to a knowledge of such fact.

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