Article March 28, 1936 Issue

In reply to Hildebrand, writing in your issue of July 20,...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,

Essex County Standard

In reply to Hildebrand, writing in your issue of July 20, let me say that the "minds" of Christian Scientists are not "unquestioning minds," as he asserts. Christian Scientists are taught to differentiate between truth and error. I repeat, that the book in question is discredited by those who are in a position to know when the author is stating that which is not true about Christian Science. A mathematician would naturally know when a mistake was made in a computation, and he should be able to correct it. If he is not able to do this, he cannot be called a mathematician. The hundreds and thousands who are daily studying Christian Science, and proving its truth by healing the sick and sinning, ought .to be able, and are able, to discern the mistakes in a book written by one who cannot prove this truth.

Primitive Christianity is the Christianity taught by Christ Jesus. It continued for something like three hundred years after the ascension of the Master, but gradually the healing was lost and creeds and dogmas were substituted for the proofs, namely, the healing of sin and disease and the raising of the dead.

The premise of Christian Science is that God is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and that man and the universe are the expressions of His being. God being Spirit, man and the universe must be spiritual, for like produces like. Consistency consists in holding steadfastly to this premise and making all conclusions correspond with it. There is no consistency in saying that the immortal produces the mortal; that the infinite produces the finite; that the immutable produces the mutable; that the eternal produces the temporal.

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