Article October 31, 1925 Issue

Instead of being an "irrational mental cult," Christian Science...

Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,—Paris

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Instead of being an "irrational mental cult," Christian Science is enabling thousands upon thousands of Christian people all over the world to give a reason for the hope that is in them. They are learning through the teachings of Christian Science to love God, or Truth, with the mind as well as with the heart and soul, in accordance with Scriptural injunction.

An open-minded visitor to any of the hundreds of large and crowded churches of the Christian Science denomination to be found in many of the larger cities, or to any of the smaller gatherings throughout the country, will be convinced that Christian Scientists are an earnest Christian people, happy in having learned that the religion of the Bible helps them to overcome sickness as well as sin, and to live normal, wholesome lives. Nothing savoring of monasticism or anchoretism characterizes the lives of these people; and it may be said that the male sex, in the persons of active, prosperous business-men will be found more in evidence than in most Protestant churches.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science was not an epileptic child nor a neurotic woman. Mary Baker Eddy, after reaching the age of forty-five and after many years of invalidism, began her great work for humanity which she continued until near the age of ninety. The fruitage of those devoted years of incessant labor is to be seen in millions of instances of healing from sickness and from sin; in a world-wide organization unified in its work of uplifting humanity; in its widely read periodical literature, including a great international daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. The organized philanthropies of the Christian Science movement are noteworthy, as witness the activities of Christian Science Relief Committees in the tornado district of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.

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