Article October 22, 1927 Issue

In spite of a characteristic desire to be fair to teachings...

Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,—Detroit

Free Press

In spite of a characteristic desire to be fair to teachings with which he is personally out of sympathy, a doctor quite missed the mark when he attempted to answer a question about Christian Science in the radio address reported in your columns recently. It is not easy to gain a right perspective of Christian Science unless one bears in mind Mrs. Eddy's declaration on page 113 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science,—pulseless, cold, inanimate." Once a woman came to Jesus who, according to the gospel writer, "had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse." Jesus healed the woman; and with the healing, naturally and necessarily there came also some measure of disbelief in the reality of a sick body.

As the doctor has perhaps observed, many people have become Christian Scientists because they refused to accept the threadbare theory that sickness, sin, and discord must forever have the last word in individual human experience. Those who have learned by experience that the Christ is as available to-day to cancel their physical and moral woes as nineteen hundred years ago, are better able to bear witness to the unreality of matter than is our reverend critic. They are none the less Christians because they are Christian Scientists.

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