Article October 8, 1932 Issue

In the issues of March 15 and 22 of the Herald there...

William K. Kitchen, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—Ridgewood

Herald

In the issues of March 15 and 22 of the Herald there appeared what purported to be excerpts from two addresses recently delivered by a local clergyman in which several statements wholly at variance with facts were made regarding Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the practice of this Science by its adherents, who rely upon spiritual means, or prayer to God, to heal the sick and reform the sinner.

In correcting these misleading statements regarding this great religious leader, the church she established, and her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which contains a complete exposition of the teachings of Christian Science, permit me to say that a Christian Scientist, mindful of the Master's command to love God with all the heart and one's neighbor as one's self, has no quarrel with one who, failing to understand the divine Principle of this Christian religion, necessarily fails in an acknowledgment of its divine mission. And so, in refuting your critic's principal misstatements, we say to him as Abraham said unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, . . . for we be brethren."

Your correspondent's statement to the effect that those who turn to Christian Science and practice its religion are lacking in spiritual development, is the opinion of one who, in the face of indisputable evidence of the healing efficacy of Christian Science, fails to recognize the spiritual animus of the Christian Scientist who, in loving obedience to the teachings of the Scriptures, turns daily with spiritual desire and understanding to the divine creator of all for guidance in working out his problems in whatever form they may present themselves.

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