Article August 26, 1933 Issue

In your issue of January 26 appears the report of an...

Aaron E. Brandt,—Bloomsburg

Morning Press

In your issue of January 26 appears the report of an evangelist's sermon. In it he takes occasion to refer to Christian Science. He rather grudgingly admits that in the bringing of peace to people's minds Christian Science has done a great service, but he was careful to add that the real abiding peace "comes only from a saving faith in God;" that people were dying from diseases of which they thought they had been cured and, as though these statements were not sufficient to show his complete lack of information on the subject, he predicated his statements on the assumption that the "great faith and principle" in the religion of Christian Science is suggestion.

Now, if one wished to be led astray on the subject of Christian Science, he need only accept this evangelist's "suggestion." Suggestion, be it known, is the very opposite of Christian Science. As everyone knows, suggestion may be entirely of human origin, motivated by the most sinister of purposes and, emanating from such a source, it is at best a poor deception, since it is not founded on truth. In fact, all evil in human experience comes as suggestion.

Now let the reader take up the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which can be obtained free for reading from Christian Science Reading Rooms or public libraries, and, if he reads with unbiased judgment, he will find, before he concludes the first chapter, that he has enjoyed the most profound, scientific, and far-reaching exposition of spiritual truth that the world has ever seen. This textbook has healed thousands of cases declared incurable by medical men; and this textbook and its benefits to mankind are primarily responsible for the recent placing of Mrs. Eddy's name at the head of a list of twelve famous women who have contributed most toward American progress during the past century.