Article August 22, 1925 Issue

I shall appreciate an opportunity to correct an erroneous...

Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—Albany

Evening Journal

I shall appreciate an opportunity to correct an erroneous implication regarding the origin of Christian Science, appearing in your issue of recent date, under the caption of "Cults Condemned." It is evident that the gentleman to whom the erroneous statements are credited is both misinformed and uninformed as to the teachings of the Christian Science religion; otherwise he would not have made such a flagrant mistake as to classify Christian Science, with theosophy, spiritualism, and Hinduism. Christian Science, with its system of spiritual healing, is original with Mary Baker Eddy, the author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In searching the Scriptures she discovered the Science of being and divine law, the law by means of which Jesus and his immediate disciples healed the sick. Since her discovery of the Principle and rule of Christian metaphysics her system has been fully tested through practical application over a period of more than half a century. In the pursuit of her studies the Bible was Mrs. Eddy's only textbook. Her teachings are based absolutely upon the inspired writings and especially upon the words and works of Christ Jesus.

Competent evidence in support of this statement is to be found in the fact that to-day the adherents of Christian Science are in a great measure reproducing the works of the Master, healing the sick and reforming the sinner strictly in accordance with his precepts and practice. These practical demonstrations on the part of its adherents should remove any doubt as to the Scriptural source and Christian character of this religion. In drawing a distinction between her teachings and those of occultism, Mrs. Eddy has made the following plain and direct statement: "Atheism, pantheism, theosophy, and agnosticism are opposed to Christian Science, as they are to ordinary religion" (Science and Health, p. 139). Again, on page 104 of the same book she says: "Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action,—evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism."

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