Article September 26, 1936 Issue

Your correspondent advises your readers to waste their...

Gordon William Flower, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,

Stroud Journal

Your correspondent advises your readers to waste their valuable time by reading incorrect and hostile literature in order to gain a true knowledge of Christian Science. It would be advisable not to follow this suggested course, but to obtain the textbook on Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which can be borrowed free of charge, either at the Christian Science Reading Rooms or at any of the public libraries, and in this way your readers would procure authentic information, which, understood, would lead them to a correct conclusion.

The son of Phineas P. Quimby wrote of Mrs. Eddy, "The religion which she teaches certainly is hers." Your correspondent infers that the scientific terms used in the textbook of Christian Science are "merely jargon." One might hear the child at school use the same expression when approaching Euclid or logic for the first time—but no one would believe him. If your correspondent will read the Bible, together with the above-mentioned textbook, with an open mind and an understanding heart, he will find that the truths contained in these books can be readily demonstrated with the same certainty as the child eventually proves the theorems of Euclid or the syllogisms of logic. Christian Science is healing countless thousands after all material aid has failed. If the future of Christian Science is to be judged by its progress up to the present time, we can definitely say it not only has already proved its potency as a practical religion, but has revealed to us the truth of the teachings of our Master, Christ Jesus, and that the Word of God is as quick and powerful today as it was in Bible times.

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