Article September 10, 1927 Issue

According to the report of a bishop's remarks in your...

Charles M. Shaw, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Bolton

Evening News

According to the report of a bishop's remarks in your recent issue, he makes a series of statements concerning Christian Science, one set of which, in effect, contradicts the other. He speaks of the "false teaching" of Christian Science; then he speaks of its startling growth in this country and in the United States, and of the enthusiasm which it evokes among its votaries, and he admits "it is unquestionable that many have found relief from following its precepts." Let it be remembered that Christian Science is not a new and sensational form of healing. It has been taught and practiced in the United States for about sixty years, with steadily growing success, and in this country for about twenty-seven years. Is it, on the face of it, likely that "false teaching" should so steadily win the confidence of intelligent people and increasingly produce unquestionable results in the healing of sickness and sin?

The bishop's charge of "false teaching" means that it does not conform to the medieval theology and ecclesiasticism on which the teaching of his own church is largely based. Christian Scientists do not apologize for this, for the theology referred to is outworn, as many eminent members of that church are constantly insisting. If Christian Science is false, then the teaching and practice of Christ Jesus are false, for Christian Science was Mrs. Eddy's discovery of the underlying Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing work, stripped of all theological speculations. And this interpretation is being confirmed by the doing of those works, in some real degree, which Jesus enjoined upon his followers. The bishop deplores that the "true and better" teaching and practice of his own church is not being more enthusiastically adopted Why? Obviously the results are not such as to evoke enthusiasm. Then why allow blind prejudice to belittle the work of another organization?

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