Article October 10, 1908 ISSUE

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE

Frederick Dixon—London, England.

The Onlooker

The report of the Lambeth Conference with respect to the "Ministries of Healing" has been issued over the signature of the Bishop of Winchester. It is a remarkable document. affecting many schools of thought, both within and without the Church, but it is entirely with respect to its attitude towards Christian Science that I wish to examine it here.

There was no compulsion on the bishops to examine "the claims" of Christian Science. Indeed, the bishops, though some of them are men of deep learning, and all of them are men of high character, are very far from forming an ideal judicial assembly. There was, again, no compulsion on them to accept the offer of information made to them from the official quarters of Christian Science, though it might have been imagined that, as they were accepting the assistance of certain members of the medical profession, they would not have ignored this offer. What is remarkable is that they should have been so devoid of the salt of humor as not to have foreseen the inevitable fate of a report arrived at by such means.

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