Article March 21, 1936 Issue

The July-August, 1935, issue of The Holy Name Journal...

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

The Holy Name Journal

The July-August, 1935, issue of The Holy Name Journal carries an article in which reference is made to Christian Science. As the particular reference might be misleading to some of your readers, may I submit the following comments?

The writer is somewhat ambiguous when he says, "They call all of them attempts to live without God,—to put in His place a human ideal." Evidently what the author is trying to say is that in his opinion the religious and healing system of Christian Science does not conform to the religious considerations which he has already got himself into the habit of believing and advocating.

As to the criticism of "attempting to live without God," I quote from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, page 340: "'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' (Exodus 20:3.) The First Commandment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science." Again, she says: "The divine Principle of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself;' annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry,—whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed."

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