Article January 2, 1937 Issue

If your correspondent is genuinely anxious to discover for...

Richard B. Corridon, Acting Committee on Publication for Northern and Eastern Districts, India,—New Delhi and Calcutta

Statesman

If your correspondent is genuinely anxious to discover for himself what Christian Science is, he cannot do better than attend the religious service held at eleven o'clock every Sunday morning at the Masonic Hall, Simla. There he will be able to borrow the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and any other Christian Science literature he may care to study. There, too, he will find a group of earnest Christians, congregated to share in a service of dignity and beauty, and as eager as he himself appears to be to follow the perfect example in Christian living set us by Christ Jesus. If he will then make his observations without bias or carping criticism, he will find, I feel sure, that he has gravely misjudged the good folk whom he claims to know, and whom he describes as leading "a spiritually agitated life."

The typical Christian Scientist is a joyous person, a good citizen, a dependable worker, a loyal friend, kind and clean in his thinking and acting. I can make this assertion with confidence, because it was largely through noting these very qualities in students of Christian Science that my own interest in the subject was aroused and sustained years ago. Any Christian who lives the religion he loves has little reason to be agitated, least of all spiritually!

Christian Scientists accord to Mary Baker Eddy the designation of Leader because she has earned this place in their movement through her work as Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Her teachings and life have endeared her to the thousands who now rise up to call her blessed, for into their lives her teaching has brought health, happiness, and the peace which is not of this world. That she was a great religious leader is widely acknowledged today.

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