Article July 24, 1926 Issue

In several issues of the Missourian during the past few...

Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,—Cape Girardeau

Southeast Missourian

In several issues of the Missourian during the past few weeks, in your reports of the sermons of an evangelist, have appeared references to Christian Science and to Mrs. Eddy which, if believed, would give your readers an erroneous view of a world-wide movement for the salvation of mankind from sin and from sickness, and of its renowned and revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. In these allusions the speaker used the phrase, "an expurgated Bible." At all public services of the Christian Science denomination the King James Version of the Scriptures is used, and every earnest Christian Scientist gives daily and assiduous study to the Bible. It can be said in this connection that the best bound copy of the Bible to be purchased a Christian Scientist wears out in a few years.

The speaker's challenge to show him where the teachings of Christian Science have "ever saved a soul, made a drunkard sober, or helped to further the kingdom of God" can be readily met, and any sincere inquirer concerning the works of Christian Science can be abundantly satisfied as to the practical efficacy of this teaching. Unnumbered thousands have been lifted out of the mire of materialism into the "glorious liberty of the children of God," those in bondage to alcohol and to other appetites have been thoroughly and permanently healed, and to a great multitude the kingdom of heaven at hand has become a living fact. Christian Scientists are grateful that their Leader was a woman. The speaker's sneer at women as religious leaders was both unkind and undignified. It would be well for him to remember that woman was last at the cross, and first at the tomb on the resurrection morn; and it is a well-known fact that to-day women comprise by far the larger part of any church membership and congregation. Christian Scientists see nothing incongruous in a great religious movement having a woman for its Leader.

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