Article November 12, 1927 Issue

Number 51 of your esteemed paper contains a report of...

Paul Gassner, Committee on Publication for Germany,

Esslinger Zeitung

Number 51 of your esteemed paper contains a report of the fourth lecture on "faith healings" given in the Esslingen church, in which Christian Science was specially discussed. One gathers from the report that the lecturer has taken his information partly from hostile writings in circulation. These hostile writings, apparently considered by the lecturer as the only true source of information, contain incorrect statements, not only concerning the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the religious teaching, Christian Science, but also concerning the teaching itself. Hence it is necessary to correct these mistaken statements. The book, "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy," by Sibyl Wilbur, which is also translated into German and which is displayed and may be read in all the Reading Rooms of the Christian Science branch churches, gives an authentic account of Mrs. Eddy's life. The statement that Mrs. Eddy died of cancer of the breast after seeking medical aid is incorrect. Mrs. Eddy passed on in the ninetieth year of her life, and until then she carried out her life's work with her usual earnestness. The physician who was called to furnish the death certificate did not diagnose any particular disease.

Christian Science repudiates magnetic healing, so called, and every form of influence of the so-called human will. Chapters IV and V of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, are expressly directed against animal magnetism, spiritualism, and hypnotism.

In May, 1926, there existed in the whole world 2225 branch churches and societies of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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