Article March 5, 1932 Issue

In Tidens Tegn of the 28th ult. is a review of a book,...

Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,—Oslo (translation)

Tidens Tegn

In Tidens Tegn of the 28th ult. is a review of a book, signed "Aretino," on which I should like to make some comments.

When the reviewer designates the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, as a pioneer in "the occult art of suggestion," he makes a statement which is wholly unwarranted. Christian Science is not occult, and it does not work through suggestion but through prayer, in the highest sense of the word.

It is possible that many, like the reviewer, may find the author's description of Mary Baker Eddy and her life "very amusing"; but the book is not a reliable biography, as any critical reader will readily recognize. The author deprives Mrs. Eddy of all the virtues, of intelligence, education, culture. All her acts are dictated, according to him, by the lowest possible motives, and all evidence to the contrary is false. He has, however, little to state in proof of his claims. The book is full of quotations, most of them without any reference to their source. Some of them are correct, others are barely recognizable, while still others are not to be found in Mrs. Eddy's books.

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