Article July 30, 1932 Issue

In your issue of October 6, 1931, you printed a clergyman's...

Richard O. Shimer, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Evansville

Courier

In your issue of October 6, 1931, you printed a clergyman's answer to the question, "What is your opinion of Christian Science, and are Mrs. Eddy's views concerning Christ [Jesus'] teaching correct?" Although I appreciate this clergyman's frankness and his reluctance to criticize Christian Science, yet for the information of your readers I am asking a short space for correction. Christian Scientists do have a book called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, but it is not a second Bible. It is what its name implies, a "key" to the Scriptures, which enables its students to obtain the spiritual interpretation of the Bible; and thousands can bear living witness to the efficacy of their religion.

While it is indeed true that the human so-called mind is limited, and that unenlightened it cannot see Truth, yet does not the Bible say that "the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal"? Moreover, Christian Science reveals the great fact that the Bible, spiritually discerned, is the most practical book in the world.

While Christian Science does declare the omnipotence of Spirit, God, and that His creation is spiritual, good, harmonious, healthy, pure, intelligent, infinite—hence eternal—it in no wise ignores the carnal mind, so called. Rather is it the mission of Christian Science to separate the dross from the gold, recognizing the truth of Paul's statement, "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?" It enables us to discern between the real and the unreal the divine and the human the eternal and the temporal. It enables us to experience answered prayer. Jesus told his hearers, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Christian Scientists are finding this statement to be the answer to their difficulties.

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