Article March 15, 1930 Issue

In the report of a sermon on Christian Science contained...

William Pitfield, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,

Burnley News

In the report of a sermon on Christian Science contained in your issue of November 6th, it is gratifying to note that the expressed aim of the reverend gentleman was to take a sympathetic view of the subject rather than to make an attack on it. This laudable endeavor was, however, not entirely successful; hence the necessity for this letter.

No Christian Scientist would object for a moment to a searching examination of the claims of Christian Science to heal the sick and reform the sinner. Indeed, it is mainly through dispassionate inquiry and careful investigation of its promises and proofs that so many intelligent people all over the world have been led to renounce material methods of healing and to embrace the teachings of Christian Science. If its claims in this respect had not been vindicated, the subject would have long since lost its power of engaging public attention; but the unquestionable fact that inveterate diseases, whether called organic or functional, are being healed everywhere day by day through the spiritual understanding of the Science of man, is a satisfactory reason for the marvelous growth of this mighty movement.

The reverend critic, according to your report, appears to have failed to grasp the deeper meaning of the words "Science" and "real." After correctly, though tersely and partially, defining "science" as systematized knowledge, he belittles it by confining its meaning to a knowledge of the outside world gained through the physical senses. This surely is much too narrow a view of the term. A learned divine of the seventeenth century defined "science" as God's sight, seeing everything as it is. In its highest signification Science is divine, not human. Mrs. Eddy's discovery that Christianity is scientific brought a great hope to humanity by raising thought above blind belief into the rarer atmosphere of the spiritual understanding of God and man.

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