Article December 19, 1925 Issue

A recent issue of your paper reports a bishop as saying,...

Clyde Johnson, Committee on Publication for the State of Wyoming,—Sheridan

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A recent issue of your paper reports a bishop as saying, in an address before the Colorado Bar Association, that the films have turned Mrs. Eddy into an "expounder of scientific truth." Please extend me the courtesy of your columns to say that no fictitious, film-bestowed honor is Mrs. Eddy's, but the hard-won distinction due to actual accomplishment. As the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the Science of true being, she stands on the peak of scientific accomplishment. In fact, Mrs. Eddy stands recognized by a great and rapidly increasing number of people, not all of whom are Christian Scientists, as the greatest expounder of scientific truth since Christ Jesus walked the shores of the Sea of Galilee and so richly blessed mankind with his precepts and practices. The religion of Christ Jesus, a religion of right thinking and right doing, and the religion of Mrs. Eddy are identical, because her teachings are based upon and therefore are in full agreement with his.

According to Webster, "expound" means "to lay open the meaning of; to clear of obscurity; to interpret." In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has indeed opened up the true meaning of the Scriptures, and cleared of obscurity the great truths contained therein. Through her clear, spiritual interpretation of Scripture, unnumbered thousands have been saved from a "hell" much nearer than "just around the corner," and have truly been turned heavenward. On page 291 of her textbook she says, "Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind;" and this is in accord with the Master's reply to the query of the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God should come: "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Evidently, then, "hell" and "heaven" are states of consciousness—the former a state of wrong thinking, and the latter a state of right thinking.

Any assertion or assumption that the "calling" of Mrs. Eddy has been mistaken by the people may be true of those who do not understand the real nature of her achievement, but it is not true of those who do understand. Turning again to Webster, we find "calling" to be "a divine summons, or prompting to a particular act or duty." Thus correctly defined, Mrs. Eddy's calling has not been in the least degree mistaken by those who have embraced her teachings and profited by them in the healing of disease and sin. Christian Scientists do not "flock . . . . to patent medicines for their ills," but they consistently rely on the heavenly Father, the one infinite Mind, for the healing of all their diseases.

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