Article April 29, 1933 Issue

Kindly permit me to correct a misrepresentation of Christian Science...

Byron B. Haviland, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,

Spokesman-Review, Spokane

Kindly permit me to correct a misrepresentation of Christian Science which appeared in the Spokesman-Review of October 26. As quoted, a doctor delivered a brilliant and masterful address in support of the Eighteenth Amendment. He protested any effort to repeal existing prohibition laws, denounced the breaking of marriage covenants, and declared that "sin and unbelief in God are the motivating power behind such movements."

The doctor's eloquent denunciation of these evils reached a sorry anticlimax, however, when he turned aside to misrepresent those who differ from his method of attacking sin, as witnessed by his reference to Christian Science as a cult, and similar to Mohammedanism and Judaism, and when he made the misleading claim that Christian Science ignores sin.

Such statements are far from fact, as will readily be seen by anyone who open-mindedly reads the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science is the Science of Christianity which Jesus practiced so efficaciously in his healing ministry. "Christianity as Jesus taught it," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 135) in the above-mentioned textbook, "was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of divine light."

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