Article September 26, 1936 Issue

While Christian Science was not specifically named in...

John M. Dean, Committee on Publication for the State of Tennessee,—Memphis

Commercial Appeal

From Letters, Substantially as Published

While Christian Science was not specifically named in your published extract from a sermon based on a recently published book, the implications are obvious. I, therefore, ask space for a brief reply in so far as the teachings of Christian Science may be involved.

That ministers of the gospel should so often feel impelled to resent affirmative statements as to the essential goodness, all-power, and all-presence of God is one of the anomalies of the times. It is readily agreed that, as the critic says, to draw money out of a bank one must be a depositor in that bank. Likewise, it should be conceded that one who has laid up "treasures in heaven" has spiritual resources which are available in every emergency, physical or otherwise. If this is not true, then the Bible promises are vain—an alternative which our friend would hardly admit.

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