Article July 25, 1925 Issue

Christian Science differs from all other religions and...

Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,—Portland

Peninsula Herald

Christian Science differs from all other religions and systems of healing in that it employs nothing but spiritual means and methods, whose potency is divine, not human.

The Christian Scientist is a student of spiritual things and spiritual law,—the truth of God, man, and the universe, their relation to each other, and the divine laws that govern them. He learns among other things that the so-called mind of mortals is the cause of ill health and not its cure. He therefore turns away from, rather than to, human will modes of thinking, and endeavors to realize the truth, the truth of being, and in so far as he does this in the way taught in Christian Science he brings harmony into his experience, both mentally and physically, and has less need to exercise the body in order to keep well. The exercise of spiritual faculties is potent beyond all other means and methods.

Your recent editorial on Dr. Fosdick's farewell sermon is to the point. You sum it up in your concluding statement: "When the world seeks for the religion of Jesus, instead of eternally quibbling over the forms of the religions about Jesus which they have built up to suit their own particular fancy and ulterior motives, they will find and know the truth." "A religious reformation is afoot," you quote Dr. Fosdick as saying; "and at heart it is the endeavor to recover for our modern life the religion of Jesus."

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