Article December 9, 1939 Issue

In an account of a sermon which was printed in a recent...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Fort Dodge

Messenger and Chronicle

In an account of a sermon which was printed in a recent issue of your esteemed paper, a minister was reported as saying that in connection with certain groups of religionists, books had been published to serve the purpose of a Bible, for the groups concerned. With these various books he included the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science.

No one having any accurate information on the subject of Christian Science could possibly conclude or even surmise that the textbook of that Christian religion takes the place of the Bible. To make such as assertion is anomalous in view of the fact that the Christian Science textbook could not have been written without the most intimate knowledge of the Scriptures upon which it is fundamentally based.

Mrs. Eddy was from childhood an earnest student of the Bible, and she has definitely pointed out in Science and Health that in writing that volume the Bible was her only textbook. An outstanding acknowledgment of the place she gave to the Holy Scriptures is made in the first tenet of the Christian Science religion, which reads (Science and Health, p. 497), "We take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life."

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