Article December 26, 1936 Issue

I have read with interest the excerpts from a sermon...

Clair D. Robison, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Fort Wayne

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From Letters, Substantially as Published

I have read with interest the excerpts from a sermon printed in your issue of April 7.

The speaker is reported as saying: "The old Oriental heathen theosophism presented in Christian Science under the garb of Christian terminology is received as truth by many. ... But when the teachings of the gospel are presented and demand humble obedience, the shrug of the shoulder is employed and the lips are ready to say, 'What is truth?" Nothing is farther removed from Christian Science than theosophy, which is defined by a dictionary as, "Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits by psychic processes." No one can read the first chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, entitled "Prayer," without being impressed by its insistence upon righteous prayer, which does not include either physical or psychic processes. On page 139 of Science and Health it is written, "Atheism, pantheism, theosophy, and agnosticism are opposed to Christian Science, as they are to ordinary religion."

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