Article July 14, 1928 Issue

In your letter published recently in the Week-end Advertiser,...

Miss Margaret H. Anderson, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,—Durban

Week-end Advertiser

In your letter published recently in the Week-end Advertiser, dealing with present-day views of religion and headed, "Deluding the Public," you designate Christian Science as one of "the lower forms of Protestantism" and class it with spiritualism and theosophy. You add that Christian Science does not "represent in any sense the religion of Jesus Christ." It may fairly be asked, What was the religion of Jesus? He taught of God as Father, and of the real spiritual man as in eternal unity with God. Our Lord expressed the divine nature. His spiritual understanding of God gave him dominion over evil, enabling him to destroy sin, sickness, and death. His religion was practical, and included a healing ministry to mankind. In John we read, "The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me," and again, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

All of Jesus' teaching and promises were intended not for his immediate disciples only, but for all mankind and for all time. The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, makes this very clear, and shows us, moreover, how to follow our Master's footsteps in our daily lives, how to destroy sin in ourselves and in others, how to heal the sick. On pages 146 and 147 of Science and Health we read: "Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live. This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus' healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease." Christian Science, therefore, most surely represents the religion of Christ Jesus.

It seems necessary, from time to time, to repeat through the press that Christian Science has nothing whatever in common with spiritualism and theosophy. We quote again from Science and Health (p. 129), "Animal magnetism, hypnotism, spiritualism, theosophy, agnosticism, pantheism, and infidelity are antagonistic to true being and fatal to its demonstration." This letter is not written in any spirit of controversy. Like others, Christian Scientists recognize with gratitude the magnificent work which the Christian church, generally, has done towards elevating and regenerating humanity.

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