Article February 22, 1913 Issue

A recent issue of your paper contained a reprint from the...

W. G. Watkins

La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune

A recent issue of your paper contained a reprint from the Advent in which misstatements are made about Christian Science. The critic's desire to be fair was obvious; nevertheless, even honest efforts to judge another correctly are fraught with an uncertainty which the master Christian recognized when he admonished his disciples to "judge not."

The reference to Christian Scientists as "Eddyites" savors of personalizing Mrs. Eddy's work—which is indeed the very opposite of what she taught and practised. Her years were spent in tireless effort to turn suffering humanity away from earth's vainglories and the shadowy substance of man's wisdom to the contemplation of the one living God who healeth all our diseases. What she impressed upon her students characterized her own attitude, as shown by the following quotation from page ix of the Preface of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Today, though rejoicing in some progress, she still find herself a willing disciple at the heavenly gate, waiting for the Mind of Christ."

Instead of Mrs. Eddy's book being a Bible to Christian Scientists, it has proven a commentary for which they had long been looking. Its golden thread of pure logic has endeared the Scriptures to hearts that had waxed gross, and has enabled deaf ears to hear and blind eyes to see the message of love with its healing for "all the nations." Every member of the Christian Science church affirms his fidelity to that Book of books in subscribing to the church tenets, the first of which reads: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life" (Science and Health, p. 497).

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