Article May 24, 1930 Issue

In a column published in a recent issue of your paper,...

Orwell Bradley Towne, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,

Schenectady Gazette

In a column published in a recent issue of your paper, there is a reference to Christian Science which should be clarified. The columnist makes the statement in answer to a question regarding certain of the teachings in Science and Health, "No esoteric cult finds it easy to account for the presence of personality in a physical body."

According to Webster, the word "esoteric" means "designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers." It also means hidden and mysterious.

There is nothing hidden or mysterious about Christian Science, and the operation of its teachings is not confined to those familiar with its teachings. With the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, available in the Reading Rooms of this church and in public libraries all over the land, with free public services and lectures throughout the country, and with its teachings put into daily practice by its followers young and old—as evidenced by the Wednesday evening testimony meetings—one may not properly say that Christian Science is mysterious or hidden.

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