Article August 5, 1939 Issue

In a recent issue there appears an item in which you make...

William H. Owen, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,

Ladysmith News

In a recent issue there appears an item in which you make the following statement: "At first Washington ignored the recession, gave it the Christian Science treatment." Such a statement is misleading; and lest your readers gain a wrong impression of Christian Science and its teachings, I respectfully request space in your paper to make a correction.

The statement referred to would indicate that Christian Science ignores the presence of evil, sin and sickness, which is far from the truth. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

One might write volumes to substantiate the fact that Christian Science does not ignore the seeming existence of error in its various forms, but that it does deny its reality on the ground that God, good, did not and does not create evil, but I believe that "a word to the wise is sufficient."

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