Article February 21, 1931 Issue

With regard to the article appearing in your issue of December 19...

Miss Maude A. Law, Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,—Bridgetown

Agricultural Reporter

With regard to the article appearing in your issue of December 19, dealing with a book called "Our New Religion," Christian Scientists have neither thanks nor abuse to offer the author.

It is interesting to note that to-day certain eminent physicians in large cities are making it a practice to send those whom they feel they cannot help in cases of organic as well as functional difficulties to Christian Science, and these are being healed. This does not bear out the statement of unnecessary suffering and death. I can deny that allegation out of my own personal experience of twenty years' standing. That Christian Scientists have not yet reached the full measure of demonstration is humbly acknowledged, but the steps already taken during the last fifty years have revolutionized the world of thought, even in our own little island home.

There is no such term as "Reverend Mother" used for any individual in the Christian Science church, and, as is so often the case, the quotation attributed to Mrs. Eddy is wrongly given. It reads (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 232): "This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, invention, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and practical Christianity?" The changing and omission of even such small words as "this" and "not" give a different sense.

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