Article May 22, 1926 Issue

The article, "Little Sketched of Clay County Historical Events,"...

Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Brazil

Daily Times

The article, "Little Sketched of Clay County Historical Events," published in your recent issue, though kindly of intent, carries some mistaken and confusing statements pertaining to the Christian Science church and its teachings. In correction thereof, please permit me to submit the following accurate information.

The Christian Science Monitor is an international daily newspaper. It is not published by the local church, as was inferred. That paper is published by The Christian Science Publishing Society under the direction of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. The local church in Brazil is a branch of The Mother Church and holds services in its church edifice Sunday morning and Wednesday evening. These services are conducted by Readers, who read from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The meetings held in the Opera House, to which the article referred, are not the regular church services, but are lectures on Christian Science delivered by authorized members of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. One of the purposes of these lectures, as stated in the Manual of The Mother Church (p. 93), is to give "a true and just reply to public topics condemning Christian Science, and to bear testimony to the facts pertaining to the life of the Pastor Emeritus"—the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

The teachings of the Christian Science church are given in its textbook. That book, as its indicates, is a "Key," giving the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures. It sets forth the full teachings of that religion. The article under consideration is mistaken in the assertion that Christian Science teaches that "disease and evil are only the creations of the imagination." Christian Science teached that sickness, sin, and all other phases of evil are manifestations of wrong thinking, and that evil is not an entity, a power, or a tangible thing with intelligence and personality. Christian Science eliminates the negative sense of evil by substituting the positive elements of Truth, seeing man in his true status as the spiritual child of God. Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

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