Article January 12, 1935 Issue

The line of reasoning adopted by a clergyman in his...

George W. Martin, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia,

Geelong Advertiser

The line of reasoning adopted by a clergyman in his sermon on Christian Science, printed in your issue of November 21, appears to be based on the unloving assumption that anything and everything written against Mary Baker Eddy and the world-wide religion known as Christian Science is true. The sources from which he has taken his information are not only well known, but generally recognized as biased and hostile. The source being impure, the stream of criticism is likewise impure—not true.

The clergyman incorrectly states that Mrs. Eddy was divorced by her husband. It is well known the reverse was the case—an important point. She divorced Dr. Patterson because of his infidelity.

Our critic states that Mrs. Eddy seized Quimby's manuscripts, which, he claims, formed the basis of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The authorship of Science and Health was definitely settled many years ago. Dr. Lyman P. Powell, a New York clergyman, wrote in the Cambridge History of American Literature: "Christian Science as it is to-day is really its founder's creation.... As a whole the system described in Science and Health is hers, and nothing that can ever happen will make it less than hers." A decree of the Circuit Court of the United States confirmed Mrs. Eddy's authorship of the Christian Science textbook, the book which has brought blessings into the lives of millions of people.

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