Article March 4, 1933 Issue

While the reference to Christian Science in the article...

John M. Dean, Committee on Publication for the State of Tennessee, in the—Memphis

Commercial Appeal

While the reference to Christian Science in the article entitled "Black Magic," which appeared in the Sunday magazine section of your paper, was more or less incidental to the subject, the very fact that it was even mentioned in that connection is likely to create an erroneous impression with those who are unacquainted with its teachings.

After the lapse of many years, during which Christian Science has been tested in the public eye and thought, it should be unnecessary to have to refute statements which in some way—usually without malice—attempt to connect this teaching with the occult or with some subtle phase of Oriental philosophy. As a matter of fact, Christian Science preeminently stands opposed to superstition in every form. The only mysterious thing, if one may say so, in its teaching or practice is that quality referred to by Paul in one of his letters to Timothy when he said, "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness." To so-called orthodoxy that which is not stereotyped may seem mysterious, and this explains the all too frequent opposition to progress of every kind.

On the point under discussion Mary Baker Eddy says on page 80 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Science dispels mystery and explains extraordinary phenomena; but Science never removes phenomena from the domain of reason into the realm of mysticism." Surely there could hardly be a clearer or more definite statement concerning the attitude of Christian Science toward everything that savors of ignorance or superstition. Christian Science is just as mystical to the materially minded as the teachings of Christ Jesus; and for the same reason.

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