Article March 16, 1918 Issue

The piquancy and characteristic originality of Mrs. Asquith's...

Hector Wallace Smith

Edinburgh (Scotland) Dispatch

The piquancy and characteristic originality of Mrs. Asquith's fifteen "Love Letters" will probably entertain to some extent magazine readers, but her erroneous impressions of what Christian Science really is, partly quoted in a recent issue may unhappily lead them to the conclusion that spiritualism, spiritism, fortune-telling, suggestion, and heathen seance (whatever that may be), and the like, are in some way connected with Christian Science.

Although it seems hardly necessary, kindly allow me to repeat, for the assurance of your readers, what has more than once been said in the press,—that Christian Science has absolutely nothing whatever in common with any of those systems, which are entirely products of the human or carnal mind. The teachings of Christian Science are wholly logical and capable of proof, and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which contains a full and complete statement of this eminently practical religion and its application to the needs of suffering humanity, Mrs. Eddy has written these words on page 79: "Spiritualism relies upon human beliefs and hypotheses. Christian Science removes these beliefs and hypotheses through the higher understanding of God."

It was in the pages of the Bible that Mrs. Eddy rediscovered this Science of the Christ, or primitive Christianity, and every chapter of her textbook is founded upon the Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation. When Mrs. Asquith maintains that people tell her she is not ill when her temperature is 104, it can fairly be assumed that she has in some manner got hold of a half truth, which is often worse than no truth at all. Mrs. Eddy herself says on page 460 of Science and Health: "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction." With such a plain statement on the subject before her, it is to be hoped that some day Mrs. Asquith may be induced to investigate more thoroughly the teachings of Christian Science in order to get at the whole truth regarding illness and its cure.

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