Article May 25, 1929 Issue

In a report of an address published in your paper, delivered...

Frank J. Linsley, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,—Waterbury

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In a report of an address published in your paper, delivered before the Forum of the Second Congregational Church, a former dean of Yale Divinity School again repeats some of his unfair and misleading criticisms of Christian Science.

The critic's reference to Christian Science as a cult is incorrect. Webster defines the word "cult" as "worship, esp. according to specific rites; as, the cult of Apollo." Christian Science is a religion based upon the Bible and especially upon the healing ministry of Jesus. Mrs. Eddy has written as the first religious tenet of Christian Science: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 497). This tenet is sufficient to meet the minister's objection that Christian Science has no valid foundation.

It would be impossible for the speaker to prove his claim that Christian Science does not cure organic disease. Christian Science should be judged by its fruits, for it has proved its teaching by results. Unnumbered thousands of authenticated cases of the healing of both functional and organic disease are recorded. Signed statements containing testimonies of healing are published regularly in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel. In an article published in the London Congregational Quarterly the Rev. Archibald Jackson, a Congregational minister, said: "Many healings, not only of functional but of organic disease, are well authenticated in Christian Science practice, and it is a notable fact that these people are much more buoyant and happy in their faith than the general average of Christian believers."

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