Article October 24, 1936 Issue

In your issue of May 1 there are certain statements...

Ernest H. Partridge, Committee on Publication for Glamorganshire, Wales,—Barry

Barry and District News

In your issue of May 1 there are certain statements regarding Christian Science which are rather misleading, and I should be grateful for space for correction.

Christian Science is not associated with spiritualism, and the word "cult" is a misnomer. The erroneous statements made by our friend prove his ignorance on the subject. Christian Science is a world-wide religious movement, which today is healing and regenerating mankind through the teaching of Christ Jesus, based on purely spiritual methods. A religion based on the Christly method of healing cannot be termed "an intellectual fad."

For something like three centuries after the Master's ascension the disciples performed spiritual healings. Gradually these works of healing were supplanted by the materialism of the age—orthodoxy, creed, and dogmas being substituted.

The purpose of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, was "to organize 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).

In conclusion I would recommend the able lecturer to read biographies by the Rev. Lyman P. Powell, or Sibyl Wilbur.

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