Article February 8, 1930 Issue

It is ordinarily conceded that when giving expert advice...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Mason City

Globe-Gazette

It is ordinarily conceded that when giving expert advice or even expressing opinions which are supposed to be informative and helpful, those occupying places of influence advisedly base their statements on authorities of unquestioned reliability. Then, to find a public speaker of professional prominence misleading his audience through bolstering up his personal views by quoting from irresponsible critics instead of informed and honest expounders of his subject, is to say the least anomalous. But this was witnessed when a doctor in a recent address in Mason City, according to the Globe-Gazette of November 13, made an attack on Mrs. Eddy, who merited and enjoyed in her lifetime worldwide and highest esteem among the best thinkers. Furthermore, that same esteem and recognition of worth continues to be accorded her and the Christian religion she founded, notwithstanding the occasional critic who attempts to malign her and to belittle her humanitarian life-work.

The healing which Mrs. Eddy experienced and which led to her discovery of Christian Science occurred in 1866. This healing included her complete recovery, through divine aid alone, from an injury which a physician considered would prove fatal. After this remarkable experience Mrs. Eddy withdrew from society, as she wrote in one of her books, "to ponder" her "mission, to search the Scriptures, to find the Science of Mind that should take the things of God and show them to the creature, and reveal the great curative Principle, — Deity" (Retrospection and Introspection, pp. 24, 25).

While it is true that the practice of Christian Science does not include medical treatment, this fact does not furnish occasion for the doctor's accusation that it therefore permits death. Christian Science holds that man created in the image and likeness of God, as the Scriptures declare, is deathless, and that the human experience of death affects only mortals or the false belief of man as material. The understanding of man as spiritual, not material, bases Christian Science healing and unfolds to men the consciousness of man's real and eternal being in God. Here it may fittingly be pointed out that more than a few of those who have been condemned to premature graves by medical science have, through Christian Science, been restored to abundant and prolonged living.

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