Article May 26, 1934 Issue

A news item in one of your recent issues refers to a resident...

Franklin Dickey, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Evansville

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A news item in one of your recent issues refers to a resident of another city as a "Christian Science practitioner and spiritualist." As your readers will doubtless interpret "spiritualist" as one who believes that departed spirits may communicate with mortals directly or through a medium, it is proper that impressions resulting from this misleading connection of words be corrected, since no one could be both a Christian Science practitioner and a spiritualist.

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 259, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration." A Christian Science practitioner must, therefore, ground his or her treatment upon the spiritual understanding of God and this perfect man as the reality, not upon sinning, mortal man.

The Christian Science textbook teaches further that the real and perfect idea, man, perceptible to spiritual sense only, is never born into matter and so cannot die out of matter and become a spirit capable of communicating through the physical senses with those still existent in the flesh. And since spiritualism accepts as real a so-called man who is born into matter, lives in matter, dies out of matter, and may return as a spirit perceptible to the physical sense, it is plain that its basic teaching and that of Christian Science as to the nature and status of man are so totally different that no one could truly be both a "Christian Science practitioner and spiritualist."

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