Article June 10, 1922 Issue

The place accorded to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Edwin C. Buck, Committee on Publication for the State of New Hampshire,

Manchester Union

The place accorded to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in the religion of Christian Science, is very different from that set forth in the statement "Science and Health is the Bible of the Christian Scientist," attributed in your columns to one of Manchester's leading clergymen in a recently reported sermon. Inasmuch as such a statement gives the impression that Christian Scientists have found something to replace the Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, will you please permit me to state a few facts.

The healing of physical and mental disorders was an integral part of the Christian religion as practiced by Jesus, his apostles, and by the early Christian church for nearly three hundred years after the crucifixion. Further, the New Testament, read without predisposition, clearly expresses the correlation of sin, disease, and death. With these facts in mind Mrs. Eddy undertook the task of rediscovering this early healing Principle, and in the Preface to Science and Health (p. viii) she states that "the Bible was her sole teacher." Her findings in this search she has incorporated in the book known as "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" and that these findings are true beyond peradventure of a doubt is being attested daily in the lives of millions who are students of this textbook. Christian Science services are very little different in form from those of their evangelical neighbors. At these the congregation listens to the reading of the Bible (King James Version) and correlative passages from Science and Health, setting forth Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the Bible text,—other congregations listen to like texts and the interpretation placed thereon by the clergymen filling their pulpits.

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