In "Rational Viewpoint" in your issue of August 15, various...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,

San Diego Herald

In "Rational Viewpoint" in your issue of August 15, various statements gave a misleading impression of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Among these was the implication that Mrs. Eddy was "a sickly, suffering victim of disease most of her life."

Although Mrs. Eddy was seriously troubled with invalidism and sickness prior to her discovery of Christian Science in 1866, that important event changed her physical condition. She was then healed instantaneously of the effects of an accident regarded as fatal by the physicians and, to use her own words, "ever after was in better health than I had before enjoyed" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 24).

The physical strength and capacity that she enjoyed after her discovery of Christian Science are evidenced by her numerous successful undertakings. For instance, she wrote and published various books, including "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," a work that has become one of the most widely read books in the world; she founded a religious denomination that has encircled the earth with more than twenty-seven hundred branches; and she established periodicals that have world-wide circulation. Among these may be mentioned The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper that was started by Mrs. Eddy when she was eighty-seven years of age.

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