Article September 2, 1939 Issue

I should like to express grateful appreciation of the...

Capt. Theodore John Deans, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,

Belfast Telegraph

From Letters, Substantially as Published

I should like to express grateful appreciation of the friendly spirit in which a recent article on Mary Baker Eddy was written, but as it gives incorrect impressions in certain respects, I shall be glad if you will publish this letter. Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science did not occur until after Mr. Quimby's death and had no connection whatsoever with his theories. The Christian Science church was organized to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17)—the spiritual healing taught and practiced by Christ Jesus.

The article might be construed as implying that Mrs. Eddy's activities in the religious field were impelled by a desire for material gain, whereas her whole life was one of humble devotion to God and service to mankind. For many years she was poor from a worldly point of view. As her movement became increasingly prosperous, her tastes remained very simple. The greater part of her fortune was bequeathed to the church which she had established, to be used for the furtherance of its healing mission. Finally, may I explain that Christian Science is not "faith-healing" in the ordinary sense of that term; it is a demonstrably scientific system whereby God's ever-present law of harmony may be applied understandingly and successfully to the solution of all human problems.

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