Article May 27, 1933 Issue

A contributer to your column of "Opinions" made this...

George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California,—Sacramento

Union

A contributer to your column of "Opinions" made this statement: "If Christian Science is opposed to true science and technocracy, that was to be expected. In the past all churches have opposed progress."

Without discussing the merits of technocracy, please permit me to state that your correspondent's implied objection to all that opposes human progress is shared by Christian Scientists. I say gladly that Christian Science is not at war with his high ideal, expressed elsewhere in his letter, of a "new world" that "is born of free individuals." Christian Science regards the utilization of true human progress as a step toward the understanding and enjoyment of the real universe as God made it. Indicative of this attitude, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 195), "Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal;" again, in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 232) by the same author: "This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, invention, and manufacture. . . . It will never do to be behind the times in things most essential, which proceed from the standard of right that regulates human destinity. Human skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine origin."

Accordingly, Christian Scientists have been among the first to accept and use what is truly progressive and really benefits the human race. If technocracy shall be found to measure up to this standard, after the "give and take" of present discussion is over—discussion which by the way is being participated in by The Christian Science Monitor, the international daily newspaper, published by The Christian Science Publishing Society—then it is safe to say that technocracy will find Christian Scientists among its supporters.

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