Article June 1, 1929 Issue

Under the heading, "Religious or Scientific Bodies," a...

Thomas A. Wyles, Committee on Publication for South Australia,—Adelaide

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Under the heading, "Religious or Scientific Bodies," a quotation occurs in the Advertiser of Thursday from the London Daily Telegraph, containing criticism derogatory to Christian Science by the chief registrar of Friendly Societies in Great Britain. No exception is taken to his right to decide—subject to any right of appeal—that the act of Parliament he administers relates to physical science only, but there is no justification for his gratuitous criticism of the Science which he plainly does not understand. In reply to his charges of despotic government and blind acceptance by Christian Scientists of any assertion of their leaders, may I say that there are no restraints imposed on Christian Scientists which are not in conformity with the Golden Rule, and that Mrs. Eddy emphatically admonished her followers: "Follow your Leader only so far as she follows Christ" (Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 34). Secondly, in claiming that he was not criticizing Christian Science as a religion but merely as a "Science," the registrar attacks the very basis of the religion. He wholly fails to appreciate the fact that if religion is not Science, or exact knowledge, it is not reliable religion. It is impossible to separate the one from the other. Christian Science accepts the premise that God created all, including man, in His image and likeness, and declared this creation to be "very good." Every deduction that logically follows therefrom is Christian Science. What does not follow is not Christian Science. The truth of this Science is provable in its application to every phase or problem of human experience.

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