Article May 19, 1934 Issue

I have no desire to enter into a series of discussions with...

W. Archibald Wallace, Committee on Publication for the State of West Virginia,

Shepherdstown Register

I have no desire to enter into a series of discussions with our ministerial friend in the South. However, since he signed his letter in the Register as one who is "seeking facts and truth," I ask you to grant me space in your valued newspaper to give him and your readers some facts which may come to them in the nature of news.

The books recommended by your correspondent do not tell the truth about Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, because they were written by those who do not understand the teachings and practice of this religion. Some people consider their own erroneous concepts of Christian Science to be the truth about it. Yet no matter how much such concepts are circulated or believed, they cannot and do not affect this teaching, which multitudes throughout the world have accepted as being divinely inspired, and which is enabling them to carry out the command of the Master, who said, "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." When Christian Science is understood it is found to agree with the Scriptures, and each point presented is sustained in a logical manner and is demonstrable. If "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is read with an earnest desire to understand it, one cannot fail to find much that is good and helpful in it. If it is approached from the standpoint of suspicion, doubt, and antagonism, the beauty of it, together with the inspiration and spiritual enlightenment, will escape the reader.

Your readers were advised by this gentleman to procure a book written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). Doubtless the reverend gentleman was unaware that "Mark Twain" in his later years and after having the opportunity to investigate the subject more thoroughly changed his thought regarding Christian Science. His biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, in "Mark Twain—A Biography," quotes him as saying, "Christian Science is humanity's boon;" and when referring to Mrs. Eddy: "She has organized and made available a healing Principle that for two thousand years has never been employed, except as the merest guesswork. She is the benefactor of the age."

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