Article May 26, 1934 Issue

In answer to your correspondent, I would say that all his...

Mrs. Dorothy Hoskyn, Committee on Publication for the South Island of New Zealand,—Christchurch

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In answer to your correspondent, I would say that all his questions, with one exception, are aswered clearly and completely in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scritprues" by Mary Baker Eddy, when the sentences he quotes are read with their proper context. It is the same today as in the days of Christ Jesus: not so much so-called common sense that is needed as spiritual sense, in order to understand God, "whom to know aright is Life eternal" (Science and Health, Pref. p. vii).

In an interview with Mrs. Eddy, Arthur Brisbane, the well-known American journalist (not a Christian Scientist), relates how, when he was interviewing her, he handed Mrs. Eddy, then eighty-six years of age, a jorunal with the request that she read it. He then states, "She read the ordinary magazine type without glasses, as readily as any woman of twenty-five could do."

Another correspondent, "Joannes," is greatly mistaken, for Christian Scientists have no quarrel with the members of the medical profession. They both have the same object in view, in so far as the healing of sickness is concerned; but they work from opposite standpoints and therefore their methods are fundamentally different. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 164), "It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medical practitioners are grand men and women." Your correspondent is naturally free to put his trust wherever he thinks right, and Christian Scientists claim equal freedom to put their entire trust in God, in Him "who healeth all thy diseases," and thus follow in the footsteps of the Master.

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