Article April 11, 1931 Issue

Your esteemed paper has recently contained a series of...

Nils Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,—Stavanger (translation)

Rogaland

Your esteemed paper has recently contained a series of articles entitled "The Sects," signed O. J. In the issue of March 29 the author deals with Christian Science, but the presentation he gives of this religion as well as of its Discoverer and Founder is so erroneous that I must ask space for some information.

It is possible that Mr. O. J. has read Mrs. Eddy's book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" but evidently he has not studied it thoroughly enough to comprehend its contents. It is an utter mistake to call this book "the Scientists' Bible." It is not a substitute for the Bible, but, as the title indicates, it explains the Bible. Christian Scientists use the same Bible as other Christian churches both at their services and in their daily study.

According to Mr. O. J., Christian Science teaches that "sickness, sin, and death are mere imagination and nothing else," and that Christian Scientists do not use prayer, but simply "reason themselves away from sin, sickness, and death." It is not quite so easy as this, however. Mrs. Eddy always used prayer, even in the affairs of daily life, and she constantly urged her followers to do the same. She writes in the above-mentioned book (p. 1), "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." She also says (p. 113): "The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science,—pulseless, cold, inanimate."

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