Article June 4, 1932 Issue

Your issue of October 2 contains a synopsis of an address...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—Lewisham, England

Lewisham, Lee and Catford Journal

Your issue of October 2 contains a synopsis of an address by a bishop in which he made some erroneous statements in regard to Christian Science. He declared that Christian Science was "neither Christian nor scientific." But Christian Science is Christian because it fulfills the commands of Christ Jesus to heal the sick and reform the sinner by his spiritual method; and it is scientific because it is based on divine Principle and demonstrated according to spiritual law.

The bishop also said that Christian Science did not teach "the divinity of our blessed Lord." Christian Science teaches emphatically that the Christ, the Son of God, is divine, as our critic might have seen by reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in which this statement is made over and over again.

Again, our critic said, Christian Scientists "did not recognize anything of the doctor's skill." Christian Science is purely a spiritual method of healing the sick and reforming the sinner. The method of Christ Jesus was such, and Christian Scientists believe that his method was the best ever presented to the world. Many of them have tried material methods of healing before coming to Christian Science, and only as a last resort turned to this religion. That the great majority who do so are healed is proof that they have found a more efficacious method in Christian Science. The bishop, however, is mistaken in thinking that Christian Scientists run down the medical profession. They have no quarrel with its members. All they ask is to be allowed to practice the method which not only has healed them, but is enabling them daily to understand more of God and of man's relationship to Him.