Article April 15, 1922 Issue

A recent correspondent of your paper has included the...

Peter V. Ross—San Francisco, Calif.

Emanu-El

A recent correspondent of your paper has included the following statement in his article: "A procession headed toward the Christian Science church on a Sunday morning differs from every other churchgoing procession in that in its numbers are none who look as if they needed the true ministrations of a religion based upon the saying, 'Blessed are the poor.' " This Bible quotation is evidently taken from the first Beatitude in Matthew, and it reads: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven." Is there anything there, or anywhere else in the Bible, which leads to the conclusion that to be lacking in the supply for material needs is counted as a virtue or a blessing in itself? Not to the writer's knowledge. On the contrary, both the Old and the New Testament abound in promises of both health and plenty to the man who seeks first the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness.

"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is read in our churches and studied at home in conjunction with the Bible in most common use, the King James Version. Mrs. Eddy's claim that our textbook contains a "Key to the Scriptures," which unlocks its hidden treasures of spiritual truth, is gratefully acknowledged by careful students; and that her conclusions are correct is proved by irrefutable evidence in the form of physical healing and spiritual and moral regeneration in the case of thousands of living witnesses.

It is well to note that this article and the public assertions to which the writer has taken exception, were evidently not given out by a Christian Scientist.

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