Article August 18, 1928 Issue

In your recent issue appears a review of a book entitled...

Cecil E. Benjamin, Committee on Publication for Cape Province, South Africa,—Cape Town

Cape Argus

In your recent issue appears a review of a book entitled "One World at a Time" in which the reviewer describes this volume as "a rather confused book," and proceeds to tell how the author criticizes and discusses the world in general and various philosophies, religions, and churches in detail. After reading the review, one cannot help feeling that the author's mental attitude is somewhat like that of the Quaker who remarked to his spouse, "Wife, the whole world is queer except thee and me; and sometimes I think thee is a little queer." But I wish particularly to be allowed to refer to the comments made relative to Christian Science and to remark that the value of the author's opinion that Christian Science is "crudely absurd" may be estimated from the obvious fact that a "confused book" is the product of a confused mentality. The author's assertion that Christian Science is "mass illusion" is ridiculous and betrays, to anyone with the slightest understanding of the subject, an entire ignoring of the fundamentals of Christian Science. The statement, too, that the members of a Christian Science church, which he visited on a single occasion only, were "of the ultra-credulous type, fit subjects for the hypnotists," is equally beside the mark, for the specific teaching and operation of Christian Science is counter to and destroys the effects of hypnotism.

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