Article July 22, 1922 Issue

While Christian Scientists appreciate the kindly tone...

R. F. Haskins, Committee on Publication for the State of Vermont,

Brattleboro Reformer

While Christian Scientists appreciate the kindly tone of the ministerial conference in regard to their religion, as reported in a recent issue of your paper, yet they must object to having Christian Science put in the same category as New Thought or "mental science." To so class them is incorrect, for they have no essential similarity. Then, too, Christian Science cannot properly be called a cult in the popular meaning of the word, because it is a rediscovery, by Mary Baker Eddy, of the Christianity founded by Jesus. Any attempt to fuse true mental healing with medical science must result in failure, as it is impossible to unite systems fundamentally different from each other.

Christian Science is metaphysical Science based on the allness of God; and consequently it recognizes but one element, Spirit. In Christian Science, all disease is seen as mental error, the product of erroneous thinking; and it is cured by knowing the truth of being according to Jesus' promise, as recorded in the thirty-second verse of the eighth chapter of John.

Medical science is purely experimental. In fact, it makes no pretense of being otherwise. It aims to make a discordant personality composed of mind and matter as comfortable as possible by the use of material remedies, surgery, and so on, and of late, by psychotherapy, based on the workings of the carnal mind. According to recent medical lore, diseased teeth may cause insanity, with criminal instincts and acts. If this theory be correct, a man's morals are at the mercy of his teeth or other bodily organs! In that case, what becomes of the theological dogma of free will, upon which our present ideas of jurisprudence are based?

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