Article February 12, 1938 Issue

A clergyman, reported in a recent issue, mentions Christian Scientists...

Lieut.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—Farnham

Surrey and Hampshire News

A clergyman, reported in a recent issue, mentions Christian Scientists and takes exception to the term Christian Science.

Mary Baker Eddy named her discovery Christian Science because she discovered Christ Jesus' teaching to be practical and spiritual, and therefore scientific in its application. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 107), she writes, "In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science." No other than the name Christian Science could have been given to a system essentially Christian in its ethics and demonstrable or scientific in its application.

The clergyman implies that Jesus used medical methods to heal disease. Presumably he refers to the incident related in the Gospel of St. John, when Jesus spat upon the ground and made clay of the spittle, anointing the eyes of the blind man with the clay. It is ridiculous to suppose that one who could raise the dead with a word would need the aid of a lump of clay to restore a blind man's vision. I would remind the clergyman of the symbolism of the East and its use throughout the Scriptures. The clay and the spittle on this occasion were employed figuratively.

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