Article May 5, 1928 Issue

In an article published in your paper, a reverend doctor...

Frank J. Linsley, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,—Hartford

Sunday Courant

In an article published in your paper, a reverend doctor continues his (to use his own words) "unfriendly criticism" of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. Because of the many questions that the doctor is called upon to answer, he may not find it convenient carefully to inform himself of the facts regarding Christian Science with which many intelligent readers and thinkers are quite familiar. In accordance with the Scriptures Christian Science teaches that God, good, is All-in-all; that He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil;" and that man is His image and likeness. Consequently, matter, sin, and disease must be unreal, since they are not of the nature and character of God. Health is spiritual fact, the result of right thinking and right living. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 472) Mrs. Eddy writes: "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because they are not of God."

Through the practical operation of Christian healing as taught by Jesus and reestablished by Mrs. Eddy, unnumbered thousands of men, women, and children are gratefully bearing witness to their deliverance from the bondage of sin and disease, which evidence refutes the closing sentence of the doctor's article, where he speaks of Christian Science being good only for "neurotic patients and hypochondriacs." Those who are honestly seeking the truth about Christian Science will find it in its authorized literature, available, as a rule, in public libraries and always in Christian Science Reading Rooms.

The following statements recently made by the persons indicated are interesting: The Rev. Edward T. Vernon of London said: "God used Mrs. Eddy for a special revelation, and there is, indeed, no reason why this should not be so.

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