Article September 28, 1912 Issue

It would be quite impossible to attempt to deal with the...

Algernon Hervey-Bathurst

Chelsea (Eng.) Mail

It would be quite impossible to attempt to deal with the strange array of statements contained in our critic's letter, for he has followed that fatal course of quoting, or misquoting, isolated sentences, separated from their context, which therefore prove nothing. With regard to Christian Science, will you permit me to point out that the movement has made enormous progress since it was founded by Mrs. Eddy a little more than forty years ago. Today it encircles the globe, and it has attained these vast proportions in so short a time because it is not based on theory but on practise, not on words alone but on deeds. If Christian Science could be affected by adverse criticism, it would have ceased to exist years ago. It is, however, in spite of criticism, that it continues to prove that the teaching of Jesus the Christ, which includes the healing of sickness as well as the destruction of sin, is to be practised by every true Christian as much today as it was some two thousand years ago.

Humanity is chiefly engaged in the effort to obtain the best of everything, certainly including health, and it is an amazing fact that those should be found who are capable of decrying that which is giving to their neighbors the very thing which they themselves are earnestly seeking. May I repeat what has so frequently been stated in the press already, namely, that in founding Christian Science Mrs. Eddy had no source to draw from other than the Bible, a source which was equally available to the rest of humanity. It took, however, a woman with her spiritual discernment to perceive the spiritual or scientific meaning of the statements of Christ Jesus. Having proved that a correct understanding of what he taught resulted today, as then, in the healing of sickness as well as in the destruction of sin, she was able to give to the world the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," to the study of which so many men and women throughout the world today owe their all.

Facts cannot be disproved, and the steady growth of the movement is proved by the ever-increasing number of those who, having recovered from some physical trouble, or been freed from the bondage of sin through this teaching, are able to say, in the words of him whom Jesus had healed of blindness, "One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see;" and it is on irrefutable evidence such as this that the movement is based, and will continue to grow.

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