Article June 5, 1926 Issue

Unwarranted remarks on the life and work of Mary...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Council Bluffs

Nonpareil

Unwarranted remarks on the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy by the writer of a syndicated article, captioned "Health Talks," in your recent issue, should in justice to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science be corrected.

The unprecedented demand for her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in no way gives cause for your contributor's allusion to Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science as "the big money-making idea." This attempt to belittle the high humanitarian purpose of Mrs. Eddy's lifework and to detract from the deeply spiritual character of the religion she founded is, to say the least, most unkind. Christian Science teaching cannot be valued in terms of any material possessions, as will be attested by the unnumbered recipients of its benefits in health, happiness, and an ever usable understanding of God. In her quest for the healing element, Mrs. Eddy first made a diligent search in homeopathy. When the writer of "Health Talks" says, "I forget just what the fruit of her search was," he expresses his failure to grasp the import of Christian Science healing. Mrs. Eddy plainly states the result of her search when she writes on pages 156 and 157 of Science and Health: "Metaphysics, as taught in Christian Science, is the next stately step beyond homeopathy. . . . Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that the divine Mind has all power."

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