Article March 6, 1937 Issue

I will appreciate the editorial courtesy of your columns...

Roy G. Watson, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,

Dallas Morning News

I will appreciate the editorial courtesy of your columns to correct any false impressions concerning Christian Science which may have arisen from the reading of an article published in the Dallas News on July 12 [1936]. The author includes Christian Science in a list of "newly introduced American cults" containing the names of several religious beliefs which are closely identified with foreign countries, obviously implying that Christian Science is a foreign religion, "newly introduced" into the United States, rather than a purely American outgrowth of true idealism.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science and the Founder of the Christian Science church, was a New England woman, born and reared in New Hampshire, of pure American stock. Mrs. Eddy herself states that "thirty years ago (1866) Christian Science was discovered in America" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 181), at a time when she was living in Swampscott, near Lynn, Massachusetts; and The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was established in Boston, Massachusetts, a city long considered the very hub of the intellectual life of this continent.

In the seventy years intervening, Christian Science has spread throughout the entire world, and it is interesting to note that in the many translations into foreign languages of the works of Mrs. Eddy and of the current Christian Science periodicals, the translation is paralleled by the original text in English. In foreign countries, Christian Science services in the churches are as a general rule conducted in English and followed by the service in the language of that particular country.

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