Article July 26, 1930 Issue

Your report of a sermon by the minister of the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church...

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

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Your report of a sermon by the minister of the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church quotes the clergyman as saying, "Mary Baker Eddy's reference to the coming of the Comforter is an express denial of the Holy Christ." In the interest of accuracy this should be corrected.

In the fourteenth chapter of John, beginning with the sixteenth verse, Christ Jesus is recorded as speaking to his disciples in the following way: "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him." The second tenet of the Christian Science religion, found on page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and on page 15 of the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy, reads as follows: "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness." And in Mrs. Eddy's admonition to her followers, found on page 34 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1901, she says, "Follow your Leader only so far as she follows Christ."

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