Article August 25, 1928 Issue

In a communication purporting to enlighten your readers...

Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,—Belleville

News-Democrat

In a communication purporting to enlighten your readers on the subject of "freak cults," printed in your recent issue, a contributor ventured so far into the mazes of fiction that his observations failed to convince and revealed that apparently his search for information had carried him to most unreliable sources. It is not my intention to engage in personal controversy with this gentleman. But because the writer of the article just mentioned made critical comparisons and inaccurate allusions to Christian Science, it seems necessary to correct any false impression that may have been conveyed to your readers. The critic made a particularly misleading statement when he said that Christian Science and spiritualism are "as one." Permit me to state that Christian Science and spiritualism are utterly dissimilar. Indeed, they are so opposite and contradictory in premise and conclusion that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has devoted and entire chapter in her principal work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," to this subject, under the heading "Christian Science versus Spiritualism." Obviously this heading speaks for itself.

The inference that was made by the contributor just mentioned when he asserted that "no first class mind in or out of the church has ever believed in ... Christian Science" is certainly mistaken. Abundant proof may be furnished that in many progressive communities, including Belleville, a goodly number of representative citizens are to be found who not only believe, but understand and practice, the teachings of Christian Science after the manner enjoined by Christ Jesus when he said to his followers, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

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