Article January 15, 1927 Issue

When speaking of the activities of the North Avenue...

Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,

Atlanta Georgian

When speaking of the activities of the North Avenue Presbyterian Day School recently, according to a report appearing in your recent issue, Dr. R. O. Flinn said, "We have Catholics, Jews, and Christian Scientists in the school, but we require them all to study the Bible." Whether or not this was an intentional or mistaken implication that Christian Scientists do not study the Bible, I request on behalf of our people, and for the benefit of your readers, the courtesy of your columns for the following brief statement. Christian Scientists love the Bible; it is their chart of life; and they are habitual daily students of the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version. The Bible is taught in our Sunday schools; while reading from its inspired pages constitutes an important and sacred part of every Christian Science church service. In fact, one of the tenets of our church, to which all members subscribe, reads thus: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life" (Science and Health, p. 497). As a class, Christian Scientists study the Bible consistently. Moreover, they enjoy through their understanding of its teachings the fulfillment in daily experience of many of its promises that joy, health, peace, and progress shall be inherited by those who love and know God aright.

Mary Baker Eddy states on page 126 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," when explaining the method of her discovery of Christian Science: "The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth." The sentiments expressed by John Burton beautifully portray the Christian Scientist's thought of the divine Word:

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