Article November 17, 1923 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's teaching repudiates absolutely the theory...

Brigman C. Odom, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,

Houston Chronicle

Mrs. Eddy's teaching repudiates absolutely the theory of spiritualism, which teaches communication between the living and those who have gone before. Mrs. Eddy taught her followers to turn to God for guidance in all their secular as well as their religious affairs, but never counseled looking to the departed for wisdom and direction. The words of James, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not," comprise the sub stance of her admonition to Christian Scientists in matters of minor as well as of major importance. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 72) she writes, "As light destroys darkness and in the place of darkness all is light, so (in absolute Science) Soul, or God, is the only truthgiver to man."

In all of her writings Mrs. Eddy emphasizes the Scriptural teaching that God is infinite Spirit and that man is His image and likeness; that man is therefore governed by this one Spirit, divine Mind; that he is subject to no other governing intelligence, supposed to exist on this plane or the next. Mrs. Eddy did not teach or illustrate in her life the theory of spirits many or minds many, or the intercommunion between material beings on this plane and so-called spiritual beings on the next plane of existence, but she repudiated most emphatically all such unscriptural speculations.

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