Article October 29, 1904 Issue

A Word for the Christian Scientists

The Los Angeles Record

Quite a while ago the habit of many newspapers of poking fun at Christian Science went out of fashion. Attacks on Christian Science because of isolated cases of ignorant followers is now almost in the same class as persecution of the Jews. It is therefore the more remarkable that a local newspaper seized upon the case of a Whittier lad who was treated by Christian Science, and who died, as the basis for an attack upon the faith.

There are followers of every faith who, through ignorance, bring criticism upon themselves, but there is no reason why these individual cases should cause an attack upon a religious belief. An attack of this kind upon Christian Science is just as senseless as an outburst directed against the Methodist, the Presbyterian, or the Catholic church because a member has gone wrong.

This is not a technical discussion of the merits or demerits of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy says "Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental,... It shows the scientific relation of man to God" (Science and Health, p. 114). Can you find anything so terribly offensive in that? And, moreover, it is almost a sure thing that the newspapers which still continue to attack Christian Science have never even read that much of Mrs. Eddy's doctrine.

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