In reply to a critic writing in your issue of August 4, let...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—London

Pinner Observer

In reply to a critic writing in your issue of August 4, let me say that Mrs. Eddy never was a spiritualistic medium.

The manner in which our critic takes extracts from the Christian Science textbook without any regard to their context does not constitute fair criticism. Take one example. He quotes from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 291): "No final judgment awaits mortals." If he had been fair-minded he would have continued the quotation, which reads: "for the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly and continually, even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all material error." Again he says: "It [Christian Science] denies all forgiveness of sin by God." One of the Tenets of Christian Science reads as follows: "We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts" (Science and Health, p. 497).

One wonders what our critic means by a personal God. The Bible tells us that God is. omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, invisible Life, Truth, Love. Christian Science teaches that God, being divine Love, is therefore divine Principle. By Principle is meant cause, origin, source of all that is eternal, real, and substantial. Our critic seems to think of God as humanly circumscribed.