Article June 5, 1915 Issue

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Thomas F. Watson—Redding, Cal.

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An article published in your paper of recent date states that Bishop—attacks the Christian Science faith as a heresy. I ask that you allow me space for a brief reply.

According to Webster, the definition of heresy is, "Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church; ... lack of orthodox or sound belief." Then the members of one church may readily consider all other religious beliefs as heresy. Religious opinions change so often that it has been well said that "the orthodoxy of today is the heterodoxy of yesterday." In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 21) Mrs. Eddy has written, "As the ages advance in spirituality, Christian Science will be seen to depart from the trend of other Christian denominations in no wise except by increase of spirituality." The reverend gentleman's statement that "every shred of truth found in Christian Science was taken out of the teachings of Christ" is quite true, for Mrs. Eddy tells us that in her search for the truth "the Bible was her sole teacher" (Science and Health, Pref., p. viii). Christian Science reiterates the teachings of Christ Jesus and rests upon demonstration. That this teaching attained some degree of success in proving its faith by its works, accounts for the phenomenal growth of this new-old religion, this return to primitive Christianity.

The critic calls this religion "mental therapeutics commercialized." Christian Science is mental therapeutics in the sense that it teaches one how to think good instead of evil, love instead of hate, and health instead of disease; in a word, it teaches one the truth about God, man, and the universe, the truth which Jesus said would make us free. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, we read (p. 369): "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood."

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