Article July 5, 1930 Issue

Your issue of December 7 contains a review of a recently...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager for Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—London, England

Spectator

Your issue of December 7 contains a review of a recently published book, "Our New Religion," and it must be readily admitted that the task of reviewing such a book is not an easy one. To write a correct appreciation of such a book requires a knowledge of the actual facts, and to be able to discern between them and the statements made in several biographies which have been written, in some instances, more for the purpose of discrediting Mrs. Eddy and the church she founded than for giving correct information.

The officials of the Church of Christ, Scientist, have always been ready and willing to place at the disposal of anyone sincerely desirous of writing an impartial biography of Mrs. Eddy all the information available about her interesting life and the Christian Science movement. To-day there are still many people alive who lived with Mrs. Eddy and knew her personally; yet these people are never approached or asked for information about her.

When it was known that the author intended to write on the subject of Christian Science he was offered authentic information and any assistance he might desire, but these offers were never even acknowledged. It is doubtless true that the book is written with wit and clarity, and I am glad to note that your reviewer admits that "at times he may be charged with being unfair to Christian Science and to its Founder; not so much in his selection of facts as in the neat way in which he contrives to make the facts seem a little ridiculous."

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