Article October 23, 1926 Issue

There recently appeared in your columns an account of an...

W. Clyde Price, Committee on Publication for the State of Utah,—Salt Lake City

Deseret News

There recently appeared in your columns an account of an address by an elder containing the following statement: "We grant that Christian Science is a new movement in the world's thought. It is a phase of theosophy." While it is not thought that the elder's statement was intended to be uncomplimentary, yet it was misleading. This correction is therefore respectfully submitted for the benefit of your readers who may have gained a wrong impression from it. Christian Science was discovered in the year 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, a New England woman, who through years of demonstration thoroughly tested and proved its truth before giving her discovery to the world through her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, first published in 1875. Christian Science is not new. It is based upon and dates back to pure Christianity, as taught and practiced by Christ Jesus. The efficacy of its healing power over both sin and disease has attracted hundreds of thousands of sincere students in all parts of the civilized world; and there are now more than two thousand churches and societies, branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Christian Science is not "a phase of theosophy." When answering the question, "Is Christian Science of the same lineage as spiritualism or theosophy?" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, wrote in her book, "No and Yes" (p. 13), "No greater opposites can be conceived of, physically, morally, and spiritually, than Christian Science, spiritualism, and theosophy." Like the fixed and impassable gulf between Dives and Lazarus is the distance between them. Christian Science is founded on Spirit, the others on matter. The teachings of Christian Science are not based upon the so-called laws of matter or of mysticism, but wholly upon the spiritual law of divine Mind.

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