Article September 1, 1928 Issue

As reported in the Spokesman-Review in a recent issue,...

Everett P. Clark, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,—Spokane

Spokesman-Review,

As reported in the Spokesman-Review in a recent issue, many misstatements regarding Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science were made in Spokane recently by a minister prominent on this coast as a fundamentalist. Your courtesy in allotting me space to correct these misstatements will be appreciated. To speak of Mrs. Eddy as a "false leader," or to accuse her of magnifying herself "rather than Christ and the Bible," indicates either deliberate misrepresentation of Mrs. Eddy or ignorance of her teaching. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 34), and again in a similar message in 1902 (p. 4), Mrs. Eddy admonishes Christian Scientists, "Follow your Leader, only so far as she follows Christ."

Mrs. Eddy also states that in her search for Truth the Bible was her only guide. In consonance with this reverence for the Bible, she formulated the religious Tenets of Christian Science, the first of which reads, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." This quotation may be found on page 497 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

The textbook of Christian Science is used as an aid in studying the Bible, but is in no way a substitute for it. While Christian Scientists do not "depend upon physical manifestations for religious convictions," as our critic implies, nevertheless they believe that it is in accord with the Bible that physical manifestations of healing should follow religious conviction, in support of which they have the words of Jesus, who healed both sickness and sin: "These signs shall follow them that believe;" "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils."

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