Article June 24, 1911 Issue

In a church paper published in Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 4, 1911,...

Lloyd B. Coate

Dayton (O.) News

In a church paper published in Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 4, 1911, the attention of the readers was directed to the subject of Christian Science. While some few editors of religious periodicals have seen fit to speak disrespectfully of the Discoverer and Founder of the Christian Science movement, yet on the other hand the whole civilized world has been greatly edified by what most of the leading papers in this and other lands have said about Mrs. Eddy and the church she founded thirty years ago, which within this brief period has girdled the globe and is found in almost every city of importance in this land. These multiplied scores of able editors speak as outsiders, and though not identified with the movement, yet their editorials are as one pean of praise in acknowledging the good Mrs. Eddy has accomplished in the world. These editorials state that thousands of people have been restored from sickness to health through the teachings of this woman, and not only have the sick been healed and the sorrowing comforted, but the sinner and the skeptic have been led to God, and the drunkard reformed. The editors of the secular press acknowledge that the uplifting influence of this church is felt throughout the civilized world, and these marvelous achievements have been accomplished in this brief space of time under the most adverse conditions possible.

Much of the history of the Christian Science movement has been given in these editorials. They speak of the bitter, unrelenting hostility with which this church has had to contend. Surely nothing but the strong arm of God could have sustained Mrs. Eddy all these years, through so many trials, and prolonged her life until her work was permanently established. Notwithstanding the fact that the Founder of this great movement was a woman, and was a hopeless invalid before her healing through the power of God in the year 1866, from which time the Christian Science movement dates its origin, and notwithstanding her poverty and the lack of influential citizens to aid her in the beginning, yet she lived to see it accepted by many of the most learned men and women of this age.

In the same church paper was a marked article which contained many quotations from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that in their disconnection seem ambiguous and self-contradictory. If one were so inclined, he could take certain statements of Scripture in a similar way, and thus make the Bible appear ridiculous; that is, if taken in a literal or material sense. Tens of thousands who have studied Science and Health with a spirit of love and fairness have gained a knowledge of its spiritual import and found it to contain the most helpful and beautiful philosophy known to men. They have demonstrated this fact because through this understanding multiplied thousands have been healed of physical and mental inharmonies.

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