Article June 9, 1934 Issue

The sermon on Christian Science reported in your issue...

Charles H. Parker, former Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,—Birkenhead

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The sermon on Christian Science reported in your issue of the 27th presents a misapprehension of the teachings of Mrs. Eddy.

The speaker took exception to the use of the term "Christian Science" and in support of his contention gave a definition of the word "science" that does not cover the whole meaning of the word. Rather would I take a definition given in Webster's dictionary, "Any branch or department of systematized knowledge," because Christian Science is definitely "systematized knowledge" about God and the teachings of Christ Jesus. Writing as one who for a number of years has been striving to practice and demonstrate the teachings of Christian Science, not only would I term it "science," but exact Science, because to demonstrate it demands the complete fulfillment of the commandments: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," and, "Love thy neighbour as thyself;" and the degree to which one fails to fulfill the demands of those commandments determines the degree to which one fails to demonstrate the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the Christian Science church.

The speaker is then reported to have gone on to say, "If the claim to be scientific was absurd, the claim to be Christian was not less impertinent." A dictionary definition of a Christian is, "One who believes, or professes to believe, in Christ Jesus," and therefore Christian Science is Christian, for not only is the church based on the teaching and life of Christ Jesus, who is our Way-shower, but each adherent, before being admitted into membership with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, subscribes to its Tenets, of which the sixth and last reads as follows: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure" (Church Manual, p. 16). Christian Scientists take the whole of the teaching and works of our Master as their guide.

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