Article October 22, 1910 Issue

In an editorial in a recent issue Christian Science is mentioned...

R. Stanhope Easterday

Indianapolis (Ind.) Star

In an editorial in a recent issue Christian Science is mentioned as one of the "modern tendencies to race suicide." I have been a student of Christian Science for many years, and I find nothing in its teaching that would bear out this surmise, although Christian Science strikes a tremendous blow against sensualism. Mrs. Eddy, in the Christian Science text-book, makes the following statement in favor of marriage: "Marriage is the legal and moral provision for generation among humankind;" it "should improve the human species, becoming a barrier against vice, a protection to woman, strength to man, and a center for the affections" (Science and Health, pp. 56, 60).

As a matter of fact, the Christian Science church, like other denominations, leaves the subject of marriage to the individual, and does not by hint or otherwise condemn marriage, although it points to a spiritual life above and beyond material usages, where mortals shall be "as the angels," not only above the necessity or possibility of marriage, but above and beyond the necessity or possibility of eating or drinking. However, it is the further teaching of Christian Science that such an exalted state of existence can only be reached by spiritual growth, and centuries may pass mean-while. Here as elsewhere Christian Science agrees with the teachings of the Master.

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