Article August 14, 1902 Issue

Christian Science not Superstition

E. C. Butler with contributions from George William Curtis

The Mexican Herald

To the Editor.

Sir:—In your editorial columns, you quote Professor Frederick Starr of Chicago as saying that Christian Science "is an example of the survival of the superstitions of the Middle Ages."

I am surprised that Professor Starr should have made so remarkable a statement, for he has been considered a thoughtful man and in the habit of weighing his words. So it must be a conviction with him, and that conviction is certainly based on his material view of things. If he really knew what Christian Science was, this view would change. It is clear that he has never read the text-book of Christian Science, or if he did, it was done hurriedly. He would have found out that Christian Science is directly opposed to superstition. Mrs. Eddy urges Christian Scientists to "give up the spectral at all points," and adds (Science and Health, p. 353), "The age has not wholly outlived the sense of ghostly beliefs. It still holds them more or less. . . . We must not continue to admit the somethingness of superstition, but yield up all belief in it and be wise." Again, on page 83 of the same text-book, we read, "Between Christian Science and all forms of superstition, a great gulf is fixed, as impassable as that between Dives and Lazarus."

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