Article September 1, 1934 Issue

Under the heading "Kew Delegation Visits Group...

William Wallace Porter, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,

Richmond Hill Record

Under the heading "Kew Delegation Visits Group Here," the Record reports a meeting held in the Richmond Hill Baptist Church, when the speaker of the evening talked on the subject of Christian Science. We thank you for the kindly mention of Christian Science and of Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder.

The report in the Record refers to Christian Science as a "cult." May I take a brief moment to say that it is hardly descriptive of Christian Science to classify it as a cult. Among the various denominational forms of religion, perhaps it will be agreed that Christian Science is a notable contribution to religion, because it is based upon and inculcates the teachings of Christ Jesus, healing the sick as well as uplifting and reconstructing the evil thinker. In 1879, Mary Baker Eddy and her students organized "a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Church Manual, p. 17). The basis of Christian Science being Scriptural, its classification as a cult is misleading.

Of this religion, and in confirmation of what has been stated above with respect to it, Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as follows (p. 126): "I have set forth Christian Science and its application to the treatment of disease just as I have discovered them. I have demonstrated through Mind the effects of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals of men, and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth."

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