Article July 29, 1933 Issue

The series of addresses on religion and health by a local...

William K. Primrose,—Conway

North Wales Weekly News

The series of addresses on religion and health by a local clergyman, now appearing in your paper, must be of considerable interest to many of your readers. The one reported in your issue of February 2 was upon Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder. Christian Scientists consider that the growing recognition of the close connection between religion and health is a step towards the views held by them, and further evidence of the leavening influence of the teachings of Christian Science on the thought of the world today.

The teachings of Christian Science are founded upon the Bible; and, like the teachings of Christ Jesus, they are radical and challenge the accepted theories of the mortal or carnal mind, which, as St. Paul declared, is "enmity against God." One desiring correct information about the teachings of Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy should choose carefully the literature he reads on the subject. On pages 118-120 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" there is recorded a letter by Mrs. Eddy to a clergyman in which she said: "Those who look for me in person, or elsewhere than in my writings, lost me instead of find me. I hope and trust that you and I may meet in truth and know each other there, and know as we are known of God."

Christian Scientists know Mrs. Eddy's life-work is bringing about the reinstatement in this age of "primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17). They further know she could not have accomplished this had her character been of the nature represented by her detractors. Christian Scientists find the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, a logical, concise, and clearly written book, and they know also that thousands of people have been healed of sin and all kinds of disease simply through the reading of that book.