Article June 16, 1934 Issue

Please allow me space in your valuable paper to make a...

Hugh T. Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,—Tacoma

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Please allow me space in your valuable paper to make a few corrections of misleading statements regarding Christian Science which appeared in a letter in your readers' column.

The critic, in taking exception to The Christian Science Monitor on account of what he, no doubt, honestly believes Christian Science teaches as a religion, states that Christian Science is not in "sympathy with traditional Christianity." If he would take the trouble to investigate Christian Science by a careful perusal of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, he would find that Christian Science is based on the Bible and is in exact accordance with the teachings of our Master, Christ Jesus, who left this test of Christian discipleship: "By their fruits ye shall know them." Mrs. Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 148), "Christianity is the summons of divine Love for man to be Christlike—to emulate the words and the works of our great Master."

Our critic says that Christian Science "teaches that there is no evil, disease, or death." Christian Science does not deny that these conditions seem very real to a large majority of mankind today. Just as a traveler in the desert knows by experience that a mirage is not real, so the Christian Scientist knows that, since God made all that was made, and that it was very good, so evil, disease, and death, not being good, are not of His creation, and consequently cannot be real. On pages 243 and 244 of our textbook we read: "Sickness, sin, and death are not the fruits of Life. They are inharmonies which Truth destroys. Perfection does not animate imperfection. Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error."

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