Article July 11, 1936 ISSUE

It is reported that in a sermon recently broadcast from...

B. Howard Grigsby, Committee on Publication for Ceylon,—Colombo

Times of Ceylon

It is reported that in a sermon recently broadcast from Colombo a clergyman referred to Christian Science as "spiritual dope." I should like to take advantage of your columns to correct any misapprehension which might arise as a result of this misstatement.

The action of dope, or drugs, is temporarily to stimulate or stupefy the human faculties, and its continued use always results in complete moral, mental, and physical demoralization. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says (p. 162), "Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies."

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