Article April 26, 1930 Issue

I thank you for publishing my letter in the South China Morning Post...

William H. Adler, Committee on Publication for Hongkong, China,

South China Morning post

I thank you for publishing my letter in the South China Morning Post of October 17 and shall be glad if you will kindly permit me to trespass on your columns again, in order to correct some of the misstatements made about Christian Science in the letter by a "Member of the church of Occult Science," in your last issue.

Let me assure your correspondent at the outset that Christian Scientists do not hold differing beliefs in contempt. Religious organizations are successfully founded and maintained only on the fundamental things of Spirit—not on adverse criticism and contempt.

The letter states that Christian Science and the science of the occult have both the same Christian foundation. Now Christian Science is indeed founded on the Holy Bible, but in the same way and to the same extent that all forms of superstition and necromancy are denounced in the Holy Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy has shown how entirely separate are all such beliefs from Christian Science. On page 104 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes: "Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action,—evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism."

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