Article November 25, 1933 Issue

The remarks of a minister speaking before the preconvention...

Leicester Lemont Jackson, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,

Montgomery Advertiser

The remarks of a minister speaking before the preconvention meeting of the Alabama Baptists' Council as reported in your columns recently, in which Christian Science was classed as a "heresy," call for a few words of comment.

Christian Science does, without doubt, hold to "opinions opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards" of our critic's church—to use a dictionary definition of "heresy"—but this does not necessarily mean that the teachings of Christian Science are wrong. Christian Scientists are quite willing that their religion be judged by the rule mentioned by Christ Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount, when he said, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. ... Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."

That the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, well knew that her teachings would not be immediately accepted for their true worth is indicated on page 343 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says, "Whoever is the first meekly and conscientiously to press along the line of gospel-healing, is often accounted a heretic."

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