Article January 17, 1931 Issue

The article entitled "Shall Protestants Adopt the Confessional?"...

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

North American Review

The article entitled "Shall Protestants Adopt the Confessional?" which appeared in your February, 1930, issue, gives a wrong impression of Christian Science, due very probably to the popular misconception that Christian Scientists ignore disease and the fear of disease. In the interest of fairness this should be corrected.

The article states that Christian Scientists ignore the fear of disease and claim better results from so doing than by confessing it. This is not at all in keeping with the facts.

Facing a fear with full faith in the understanding of God to heal it, and meeting that fear and its consequent ill effects on the basis of that faith, may not properly be called ignoring either the fear or the disease. This is exactly what Christian Scientists do. They believe that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, spoke the truth when she wrote on page 231 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of this religion: "To hold yourself superior to sickness and death ... is in accordance with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part of His creation."

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