Article January 3, 1942 ISSUE

In an article in a recent issue of...

Ernst G. Breitholtz

Svenska Dagbladet

[Ernst G. Breitholtz, former Committee on Publication for Sweden, in Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm (translation)]

In an article in a recent issue of Svenska Dagbladet Christian Science is called a "modern religious substitute." As many of the readers of your paper might get a wrong impression of Christian Science from this, I respectfully request space for the following.

The opinion that Christian Science is a "religious substitute" or something that replaces divine worship, is one of the misconceptions which appear strange to those who attend regularly Christian Science services or study its religious literature. Their Christian faith has, through Christian Science, been enriched and given a greater sincerity. Their religious progress depends not least upon the constant study of the Bible which Christian Science demands.

Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 497 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life."

"We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness."

These are the first two of six religious Tenets, to which every person subscribes when becoming a member of the Christian Science denomination, whose branch churches in Sweden are all recognized by the Swedish State.

At the Wednesday evening testimony meetings, held in Christian Science churches, many proofs are given of the work of Christianization and spiritualization which Christian Science performs.

Well-known persons are sometimes maliciously attacked in certain magazines. Mary Baker Eddy was attacked in this way. It is a matter for rejoicing that the misconceptions as to Mrs. Eddy and her work, which are based on unreliable sources of information, are steadily decreasing. Those who wish to read an unbiased account of Mrs. Eddy's life, free from sensationalism, are recommended to read the biography, "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait," written by Dr. Lyman P. Powell, formerly rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in New York City. This biography is translated into Swedish and can be obtained in bookshops and in all the Christian Science Reading Rooms in Sweden.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.—Selected.

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