Article September 18, 1920 Issue

Our East Orange friend really makes only two points...

Samuel J. Macdonald

Newark (N. J.) News

Our East Orange friend really makes only two points clear: First, that Christian Science differs from Methodism, and, second, that he has failed to understand what Christian Science teaches; but neither of these justifies his assault upon Christian Science and its honored Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. So far as his attack upon Mrs. Eddy is concerned it is sufficient to refer to "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur, which may be procured in any free public library. The author of this biography made an independent, thorough research into original documents and records, after which she wrote the facts concerning Mrs. Eddy's life and works fully and fairly. I shall not debate with our friend the respective merits of Methodist and Christian Science theology—newspaper columns are narrow and space is precious in the editorial eye. Let me say, however, that the mere fact that our respective religions differ, though never so widely, does not justify either of us in assailing the faith of the other. On the contrary, let us rather say, as Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren."

I should like, in conclusion, to remind my friend of one thing which apparently he has overlooked. He objects to Mrs. Eddy's use of the name "Principle," as applied to God, but evidently has forgotten that God is referred to in the Bible more than a score of times as a rock. The apostle John says, "God is light," and the apostle James calls Him "Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." All these conceptions of God are summed up in the one word "Principle," which thus has the fullest Scriptural authority.

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