Article March 3, 1934 Issue

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In your October 17 issue you printed an item by a...

Carl W. Gehring, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,—Chillicothe

Scioto Gazette

In your October 17 issue you printed an item by a doctor. In describing an interest in Christian Science on the part of orthodox church members as a flight from the church, the doctor misleads your readers, and I request the opportunity to correct such an impression.

This doctor catalogues Christian Science as "cultism" and as "a by-product of this chaotic age." Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866 and, long before the world war, was established as a religion in the United States and around the world. Thousands of people in the present "chaotic age" find Christian Science a source of cheer and comfort and an active agent in the warfare to bring the world back to a state of sanity. A religious movement which has given the world a sane and sound daily newspaper in The Christian Science Monitor can hardly be designated as a "cult" springing from chaotic conditions.

It is further stated in this article that "there isn't a thing that Christian Science actually does cure that you and I don't cure by the same means." Here is a statement that Christian Science cures and that it cures by the same means that the church of this doctor cures. Therefore, this is an admission that Christian Science has the qualities of a church within itself—and it has the qualities of the church of Christ. Christian Science heals through the power of God, divine Mind, the spiritual power demonstrated by Jesus, and by no other means. Christian Science teaches men to pray so that they gain "an absolute faith that all things are possible to God" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 1). Christian Scientists will rejoice when all the churches of the world use this faith to cure the ills that torment the world—sickness as well as sin.

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