Article May 4, 1929 Issue

The courtesy of your columns is requested for a brief...

Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for Somerset, England,

Weston-Super-Mare Gazette

The courtesy of your columns is requested for a brief answer to a lecture entitled "The Science of Misconception—Christian Science." I venture to suggest that a more appropriate title would have been "Misconceptions of Christian Science."

In reply to the lecturer's objection that Christian Science was founded by a woman, I would point out that if a thing is true it is not less true because discovered by a woman.

The lecturer further criticizes Christian Science on the ground that the miracles of the Bible were due to the "direct supernatural interventions of the Deity" and were limited to the time of Jesus and his disciples. Christian Scientists understand these healing works to be the result of the understanding of God's laws, which, like Christ, are "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." The fact that Moses and the prophets healed the sick, as did the early Christians for about three centuries after the Christian era, proves the ever operative nature of God's laws. Moreover, Christian Scientists are to-day healing the sick and sinning in obedience thereto, and in fulfillment of the "signs following" declared by Christ Jesus to be the sure test of discipleship.

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