Article December 18, 1926 Issue

A recent answer by a critic in the Boston Herald to a...

Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,

Boston Herald

A recent answer by a critic in the Boston Herald to a question about Christian Science, shows a strange lack of correct information and just appreciation. Christian Scientists make no effort to "suppress unfriendly criticism." We are entirely willing to "let the light play upon" what he prefers to call our "cult." We object to what is false or unfair, and to what does not enlighten or inform, but would obscure or misrepresent.

The attempt of this critic to reduce Christian Science to "the simple truth that mind affects matter" shows an astonishing failure or refusal to be correctly informed. Any fair-minded inquirer can disprove for himself this attempt to belittle Christian Science by reading Mrs. Eddy's principal work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," or even by attending a few Sunday services in any of our churches. Christian Science is emphatically a religion. It is concerned with disease as with a form of evil from which salvation is needed; and its remedy for disease is its remedy for other forms of evil. This remedy is a practice that is required to be both mental and spiritual, and to be based upon the divine law and the divine Mind.

In the same answer, the teaching of Christian Science about reality was criticized in a manner which shows that a critic of other people's religion is peculiarly apt to be mistaken. Contrary to his supposition, Christian Science does not accept the reality of any material condition. In the correct view of Christian Science, reality is absolutely spiritual. As Mrs. Eddy has said: "Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal" (Science and Health, p. 335). She has elucidated this subject repeatedly; for instance, on page 120 of the same book.

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