Article December 8, 1917 Issue

Christian Science must be accomplishing its healing mission...

B. W. Oppenheim

Idaho Falls (Idaho) Post

Christian Science must be accomplishing its healing mission in your community, else why should a medical doctor pay for three and a half columns in which to abuse it and vilify its Founder? It is related in Acts that one Demetrius, who manufactured silver shrines for Diana, calling his craftsmen together and pointing out that their occupation depended upon the worship of Diana, proceeded to abuse Paul and his followers. Is our medical friend, like Demetrius, fearful of his livelihood because Christian Scientists refuse to worship at the shrine of what he terms "the omnipresent germ?"

"No mystery to-day surrounds the life story of Mary Baker Eddy," writes Sibyl Wilbur, in prefacing her biography of Mrs. Eddy, a book which is accessible in any public library. The biographer continues: "Her birth, her ancestry for two hundred years, her education, her social development, and her individual service to the world have been scrutinized with the strong search-lights of both love and criticism. Every event of her long career has been established by unimpeachable records and testimony. It is no longer possible to invent fiction concerning the environment in which she was born and reared or the acts which made up her life." Every one of the doctor's calumnies on Mrs. Eddy's life and work is wholly untrue or distorted, and has long since been shown so to be.

Not for the purpose of enhancing her own fame, but solely to bring blessing to mankind, Mrs. Eddy established the Christian Science church with its many activities, and lived to see her work grow to world-wide proportions. No one can successfully deny that she and her followers have done an immense amount of good for mankind. Is it for this good work that her memory is thus subjected to abuse? Envy cannot discolor or calumny obliterate the luster of her character, nor can malice and selfishness belittle the greatness of her achievement. The church which she labored so unselfishly to establish is continuing to bring to all mankind the message of hope and peace which her spirituality reinterpreted for mankind. Such results could not flow from witchcraft and chicanery.

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