Article June 27, 1925 Issue

A short report of a lecture on Christian Science, appearing...

David A. Giel, Committee on Publication for Holland,—Massluis (translation)

Westlandsche Courant

A short report of a lecture on Christian Science, appearing in your issue of recent date, contains a few remarks which, apart from the question whether they are to be put down to the speaker or to your reporter, are apt to give a very wrong impression of the teachings of Christian Science. For which reason I, in fairness, ask place for the following correction. According to the report, the speaker accuses Christian Science of being pantheistic, of teaching that God and this world are one. This is in curious conflict, however, with another of his statements, namely, that Christian Science denies the reality of this world. Christian Science indeed teaches that this world—that is, the world of the material senses, wherein all is changing, imperfect, and temporal, and to which sin, sickness, and death seem to belong—is not God's creation, and, therefore, is destined to disappear, in accordance with many Scriptural passages, especially those in the New Testament. It is incomprehensible how the speaker could accuse Mrs. Eddy of putting "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in line with, or even before, the Bible. I need only refer to page 497 of that book, where Mrs. Eddy gives the following as the first tenet of Christian Science: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." Subscription to this tenet is an indispensable condition for membership in the Christian Science church.

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