Not Opposed to the Bible

Archibald McLellan

Kankakee (Ill.) Daily Gazette

Chicago, January 24, 1901.

Editor Gazette:—Please permit me to take exception to the caption, "Christian Science vs. Bible," which appeared in your issue of January 21. Christian Science is not and never was versus the Bible. The following quotation from page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, is the first of the tenets of the Christian Science denomination, to which every person joining any church of the denomination is required to give written assent:—

"As adherents of Truth, we take the Scriptures for our guide to eternal Life."

The writer of the letter which you published under the above caption accuses me of advocating mental suggestion or hypnotism, but in that he is mistaken. The object of my letter, which you were kind enough to publish in your issue of January 18, was to make plain to all that Christian Science is neither mental suggestion nor hypnotism, and has nothing in common with such systems.

I am pleased to be able to assure Mr. Green—the writer of the letter in question—that Christian Scientists not only assent to all the Scripture, but they endeavor to put their faith into works which attest their sincerity. They are trying to preach no other gospel than that of Jesus Christ and his apostles. That Christian Science is healing the sick and reforming the sinner is so easily proved by the testimony of witnesses in your own city, that an answer to Mr. Green's question seems superfluous, but the following from Law Notes, a leading legal journal, published at Northport, N. Y., will not be amiss:—

"If human testimony is worthy of any credit, real cures have been accomplished by them [Christian Scientists], and at the very least, substantial peace of mind has been brought through their agency to sufferers pronounced beyond the powers of ordinary physicians. The positive worth of the results of Christian Science is not to be set aside dogmatically or contemptuously."

Also the following from the address of Rev. E. Winchester Donald, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, at the recent Episcopal Church Congress in Providence, R. I.:—

"Is Christian Science leading men out of the darkness of unbelief into the light of God? Yes, it is, it is; there can be no doubt about that. You and I know too many Christian Scientists whose lives are blameless to doubt that."

Archibald McLellan.
In the Kankakee (Ill.) Daily Gazette.

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