Article January 31, 1914 Issue

A correspondent who signs himself "A Student of Christian Science,"...

John W. Doorly

The Halifax (England) Courier

A correspondent who signs himself "A Student of Christian Science," seems quite sure that he knows all about Mrs. Eddy's teachings, but unfortunately for him he has only that "little learning" which "is a dangerous thing," and this I will show quite shortly.

Christian Science teaches that God's man is spiritual and indestructible, that he is the image of perfect Mind, or God. It also teaches that mortal man is but a false, material sense of this perfect man, and bears to this perfect man the relationship which two and two are five bears to two and two are four. Now, your correspondent has failed entirely to grasp the fact that Mrs. Eddy in her writings discriminates between this true man and the false mortal sense of man, and hence he has got himself into a hopeless muddle in his statements as to what Christian Science teaches about the body. His statement is utterly incorrect, and cannot be found anywhere except in the fervid imagination of such critics as your correspondents, who allow their desire to disprove the teaching of Christian Science to overstep their wisdom in making criticisms.

The critic states that Mrs. Eddy says in her book, "Jesus is a mortal belief which disappeared." Evidently the critic did not care to quote Mrs. Eddy's own words, as had he done so his statements would undoubtedly have fallen flat. In her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". (p. 589), Mrs. Eddy says, respecting Jesus, that he is "the highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man's immortality." This definition at once disproves your correspondent's statement, and also disproves his equally erroneous statement that Christian Science teaches that Jesus Christ did not come in the flesh. On page 332 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says that "Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was appointed to speak God's word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand as well as perceive." It would be quite possible and quite easy to take every one of this correspondent's statements and disprove them, but enough has been done to show that the critic's perverted sense of Christian Science is in no way what Christian Science really is. Moreover, he does violence to the facts when he states that Christian Science "converts no sinner from the error of his ways, transforms no evil life or character." Perhaps it would be impossible to make a statement which contained less truth than this quotation from the critic's remarks. The redemptive gospel of Christian Science has proved itself in the healing from sin and disease of a vast multitude of people, and there are few towns or villages today in which are not to be found living witnesses of this fact.

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