Article September 29, 1923 Issue

The Lectures

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (First Church).—E. Wyly Grier made the following prefatory remarks at a Christian Science lecture by John C. Lathrop:—

"Of making many books there is no end;" and if this was true at the time the book of Ecclesiastes was written, how much more true it is to-day. But of all books in the vast numbers that have accumulated since man learned the art of writing, none has had so potent, so universal an effect upon the thought, and therefore upon the conduct of mankind, as the Bible. Those who believe in the Bible as a book either wholly or partially inspired by God, comprise the Christian world to-day; but that Christian world is very far from being united. It has awaited for many centuries some great and commanding light of wisdom to reunite its many subdivisions, and to explain the apparent contradictions in the Bible itself.

In the year 1875 there was published a book which hundreds of thousands of persons now believe was the illumination which Christianity needed. These persons realize that they themselves, who sat in darkness, have seen a great light—a only less intense than that which dawned on the world some nineteen hundred years ago. The book I refer to is "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This book, which is the Christian Science textbook, has not supplanted the Bible in the thought of Christian Scientists. That is impossible in a book a part of whose title is "with Key to the Scriptures," and which contains, on page 497, these words amongst many statements of similar import: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life."

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