Article July 21, 1934 Issue

I have often admired the excellence of the Reformed Church Messenger...

Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,—Philadelphia

Reformed Church Messenger

I have often admired the excellence of the Reformed Church Messenger and received the impression that it is delightfully broad in its vision, a very reliable informant, and withal tolerant toward other religions. Hence I am somewhat surprised to see in it an article from a contributor who refers to Christian Science as "one of the current religious fads."

Just why this contributor, in his article on "Exchanging Gods," should so refer to a world-wide religion which has successfully withstood every conceivable form of misrepresentation and attack, and classify it with spiritualism and atheism, and then say in the same sentence, "but I am not thinking of that group," is inexplicable, except only as the wish may be father to the thought.

There is not the faintest possibility of refuting the spiritual and scientific basis of Christian Science by implying that it is a passing notion, hobby, whim, or craze, as the dictionaries define a fad. It takes but a careful examination of current press reports and progressive writings to show that today the teachings of the world, comprised in natural science, philosophy, theology, and even medicine, are converging with remarkable speed toward a common center. And at this center stands, modestly but firmly, the inspired teaching of Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who states in Science and Health (p. 207): "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause."

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