Article August 29, 1908 Issue

I have just read your editorial on the Pan-Anglican Congress...

Arthur E. Jennings

Darlington and Stockton (Eng.) Times.

I have just read your editorial on the Pan-Anglican Congress with interest. Among all the subjects discussed, Christian Science seems to have been as helpful as any, and the charitable way in which it has been approached by many of our good bishops and laymen speaks well for the large-heartedness of people generally. ... We admit that it is considered, by many, an error to leave the Church of England, but it should be remembered that this is not the fault of the Christian Scientists. It is impossible openly to practise Christian Science and stay in an orthodox church. It has been tried over and over again. Mrs. Eddy was very hopeful about this at first, and thought that the churches would immediately accept Christian Science. Instead of that she has gone through forty years of most bitter opposition from the churches, and endured it all without a single unkind word from her, Christian Science is purely metaphysical, and it has been founded in a natural, logical, and scientific way. Surely no one since the dawn of the Christian era has had a better right to start a church than Mrs. Eddy, and she asks us to follow her "only so far as she follows Christ" (Message to The Mother Church, 1902, p. 7). Christian Scientists do not feel that they have left the Church. In fact, we all know that we are of more use to the Church and humanity than we have ever been before. We feel that we are more useful to everybody, without reference to sect, race, or color, and our endeavor is to establish "on earth peace, good will toward men."

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