Article November 12, 1938 Issue

Permit me to make a few remarks relative to your article,...

Meinrad Schnewlin, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland

Solothurner Zeitung

From Letters, Substantially as Published

Permit me to make a few remarks relative to your article, "Thoughts for Sunday," in a recent issue. The article seems to take an attitude against Christian Science. In that sentence, "What we sorely need is not Gesundbeter," the meaning seems to be, No Christian Scientists. And the declaration, "Sickness is not, as Christian Science says, imagination," appears to criticize this teaching. On this point the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, says on page 4 of "No and Yes": "Disease is more than imagination; it is a human error, a constituent part of what comprise the whole of mortal existence,—namely, material sensation and mental delusion."

Apart from a few assertions, the article contains a number of things that agree with Christian Science, as, for instance, that "the first work" of Christ is an innermost reformation, and that visible corporeal healings are not the first but, as Mark says, "signs following." Christian Science also agrees with the statement that "what we sorely need" is men "who accept the gospel of Christ very seriously and in the full power." Those who know Christian Science are conscious that the Christ-power, which reforms us, rules over the one spiritual creation, and that the book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, shows us how, with the use of the Bible, we can realize the ruling of this power if our watchword is the gospel. As Christ Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

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