Article January 8, 1916 Issue

In an article on "Nature Around Huddersfield," the writer...

Fred R. Rhodes

The Huddersfield (England) Examiner

In an article on "Nature Around Huddersfield," the writer states, "I went to the Christian Scientists, from whose teachings, let me say, I have derived great benefit; but when I found in Mrs. Eddy's text-book that the study of minerals, stars, and so on, is of no real importance, that brought my inquiries in that direction to an abrupt end."

I am quite sure your correspondent would be the first one to admit the necessity for accuracy in quoting extracts from other authors, and will therefore permit me to give the exact quotation to which he refers, which is as follows: "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and eternal" (Science and Health, p. 209).

To the student of physical science it is of "real importance" to study these questions, but to the student of metaphysics it is necessary to look at the things that are not seen through the physical senses. It would seem a pity to bring to an abrupt end the study of anything which had proved a "great benefit," simply on account of a misunderstood paragraph.

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