Article May 25, 1940 Issue

In a recent issue there appears an item which refers to a...

Svend Pontoppidan Broby, Committee on Publication for Quebec, Canada,—Montreal

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In a recent issue there appears an item which refers to a religious movement under the name of "Divine Science," which is described as "a modernized form of Christian Science." Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable paper for a short comment?

Christian Scientists rejoice whenever they see evidence of spiritual awakening and a desire on the part of men to become better acquainted with God. It is a mistake to designate any religious movement or group as "a modernized form of Christian Science," since the word "Science," as applied to Christianity, refers solely to that which is capable of being demonstrated according to fixed rule.

Mrs. Eddy discovered that divine Science is the immutable law of God, available to all who understand this law. On page 112 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes: "Is there more than one school of Christian Science? Christian Science is demonstrable. There can, therefore, be but one method in its teaching. Those whodepart from this method forfeit their claims to belong to its school, and they become adherents of the Socratic, the Platonic, the Spencerian, or some other school. By this is meant that they adopt and adhere to some particular system of human opinions. Although these opinions may have occasional gleams of divinity, borrowed from that truly divine Science which eschews man-made systems, they nevertheless remain wholly human in their origin and tendency and are not scientifically Christian."

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