May I use the columns of your valuable paper to draw...

George C. Palmer, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan,—Kindersley

Clarion,

May I use the columns of your valuable paper to draw attention to a circular, widely distributed in your district, which makes a number of incorrect statements in regard to the teachings of Christian Science?

The quotations are inexact and the capitalization is not correct; small groups of words are torn from their context and made to present a meaning different from that which their author clearly intended, and often different words are used as substitutes for those in the text supposedly quoted. In most cases no such sentences as those presented can be found in Mrs. Eddy's writings.

For example, the circular states, "Christian Science teaches God is not a person." It is true that Mrs. Eddy says (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 2), "In Christian Science we learn that God is definitely individual, and not a person, as that word is used by the best authorities, if our lexicographers are right in defining person as especially a finite human being; but God is personal, if by person is meant infinite Spirit." And in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p.6) she says, "God is Person in the infinite scientific sense of Him, but He can neither be one nor infinite in the corporeal or anthropomorphic sense." Christian Science teaches that a concept of God as finite, mortal, or temporary, or that finds Him one of a series, or having rival powers around Him, must be a mistake. "God is One,—not one of a series, but one alone and without an equal" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 117).

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