Article September 17, 1927 Issue

In your recent issue the report of Dr. Weatherhead's first...

Robert Ramsey, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Glasgow

Scots Observer

In your recent issue the report of Dr. Weatherhead's first address as Moderator of the United Free Church contains the following statement: "The society that should be permeated by the radiant sanity of the New Testament is, just as in the palmy days of paganism, tortured by superstition, spititualism, Christian Science, new-thought, theosophy, and all manner of unwholesome dabbling in the occult." May I be allowed to point out to your readers, once again, that it is a mistake to group Christian Science along with these other systems. No one acquainted with the writings of Mary Baker Eddy on Christian Science would ever make such a mistake. For instance, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes (p. 129), "Animal magnetism, hypnotism, spiritualism, theosophy, agnosticism, pantheism, and infidelity are antagonistic to true being and fatal to its demonstration; and so are some other systems." And again, in the same book (pp. 110, 111), "No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of agnosticism, pantheism, theosophy, spiritualism, or millenarianism and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science."

Christian Science is a restatement of primitive Christianity, including "its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17). Apostolic Christianity spread with great rapidity, and the Bible records show that large numbers turned to it after witnessing the healing work done by the apostles. Christian Science is to-day, in a degree, repeating these works, and it prospers in the proportion that it does so. The sole desire of its students is to gain a better understanding of God; and there is nothing of the occult or mysterious to be found in its teachings.

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