Article November 5, 1938 Issue

The author of your "More or Less Personal" column,...

Joseph G. Alden, former Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,

Lincoln State Journal

The author of your "More or Less Personal" column, quoting recently the remarks of a visiting clergyman, reported him as saying that "too many church members practice one tenet of Christian Science, absent treatment."

Your commentator either did not report the speaker correctly or the clergyman himself is mistaken. "Absent treatment" cannot be considered a "tenet" of Christian Science in the way suggested. Christian Science teaches that the Principle by means of which the ancient prophets, Jesus, and his disciples healed disease perfectly and instantaneously, is ever present today as then. This Principle, which is God, is therefore absent from no one who needs its healing ministrations.

The Tenets of Christian Science precisely state its religious teachings. They were written by Mary Baker Eddy and are found in her textbook and in the Manual of The Mother Church. There is one which if generally practiced by mankind, would revolutionize and harmonize the world. It reads (Manual, p. 16), "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure."

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