Article January 25, 1930 Issue

In the Guard's announcement last week of an adult...

Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,—Eugene

Guard

In the Guard's announcement last week of an adult school of religious education to be conducted by the pastor of the Unitarian church, a number of the topics to be discussed were mentioned, among them "some recent intrusions from the Orient such as theosophy, Christian Science, Bahaiism, Neo-Catholicism, etc."

That, by itself, is apt to give your readers a wrong impression, in so as it applies to Christian Science, which does not belong in that category. The religion of Christian Science is not a "recent intrusion from the Orient;" nor has it any common source with theosophy, Bahaiism, or Neo-Catholicism. Christian Science stands in a class by itself, for the purely spiritual metaphysics of this Science of Christianity fundamentally differentiates it from all other systems of religion and methods of healing. It is a restoration of primitive Christianity in its purity and entirety, as founded, taught, and practiced by Jesus of Nazareth.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has left no doubt as to whence and how there came to her the understanding that the Christianity of Jesus the Christ has a scientific basis. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she says (p. 110): "In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible was my only textbook. The Scriptures were illumined; reason and revelation were reconciled, and afterwards the truth of Christian Science was demonstrated;" and (p. 109), "I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration."

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