Article June 26, 1926 Issue

My attention has just been called to a recent issue of the...

Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,—Wichita

Booster

My attention has just been called to a recent issue of the Booster in which an evangelist is quoted as having "insisted that one did not necessarily have to lose God in worldliness, but might as easily lose Him in reading Mrs. Eddy." It would be impossible for one to lose God in reading any of the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, because Mrs. Eddy writes of practically nothing else but God and His spiritual creation. In her work, "Rudimental Divine Science," she defines Christian Science as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony" (p. 1); and in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by Mrs. Eddy, the word "God" appears more than one thousand times in six hundred pages. In all Christian Science churches throughout the world a Bible Lesson was read recently on the subject, "Man." In one of the Bible citations, from the ninth chapter of John, the experience of the man healed of blindness is recorded. Because Jesus did not subscribe to their systems of healing the Jews attacked Jesus by saying to the man who had been healed: "Give God the praise. We know that this man is a sinner." His reply, in part, was, "If this man were not of God, he could do nothing." But on account of this testimony, the Scripture says, "they cast him out."

While Christian Scientists wish for their fellow-men all the benefits which come into their lives, they are not troubled because others differ from them in their opinions. What they deplore is the misrepresentation of their faith, which tends to prejudice suffering humanity and thereby rob many of much needed comfort. We agree with the evangelist that one may "lose God in worldliness," but Christian Science teaches (Science and Health, p. 459) that we "must gain heavenly riches by forsaking all worldliness."

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