Article January 22, 1927 Issue

Your worthy correspondent seemed in an uncertain mood...

Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,—Chicago

Daily Journal

Your worthy correspondent seemed in an uncertain mood when, in your recent issue, he attempted to answer the query, "Kindly advise me why Christian churches do not take up Christian healing as do the Christian Science churches." Furthermore, he became evasive when requested by the same inquirer to answer the pertinent question, "What, in your opinion, is the cause of the great expansion of this [the Christian Science] church?" His reply, while admitting that Christian Science heals the sick, nevertheless contains a misleading assertion when he implies that Christian Science is "a cure based upon an esoteric creed which is more or less familiar to the majority of my readers." No doubt, the majority of the readers of the column are more or less familiar with the religion of Christian Science; and many such persons know, even if this gentleman does not that Christian Science is not "based upon an esoteric creed." Christian Science is not the property of a select class; neither is it a secret doctrine intended for a limited body of followers. Furthermore, the Christian Science church is not a church of creeds.

I believe the aforementioned inquirer is entitled to a correct answer to the two questions mentioned. They seem to have been asked in all sincerity. It is pleasing to note that Mary Baker Eddy has answered them in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" for on page 131 of that volume she writes: "Must Christian Science come through the Christian churches as some persons insist? This Science has come already, after the manner of God's appointing, but the churches seem not ready to receive it, according to the Scriptural saying, 'He came unto his own, and his own received him not.'" And the extended growth of the Christian Science movement may be attributed to the fact that Christian Science brings "consolation to the sorrowing and healing to the sick," as Mrs. Eddy declares (ibid., Pref., p. xii).

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