Article November 20, 1943 Issue

Probably your correspondent...

R. Ashley Vines

R. Ashley Vines, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia
The Age, Melbourne

Probably your correspondent has by now reread my letter as published recently in The Age, and has found that Mary Baker Eddy is justly credited with the discovery of Christian Science in 1866, as well as the founding of the Christian Science movement during the years that followed. Hence her right to the titles "Discoverer" and "Founder," for she was responsible for both these achievements.

Christian Science recognizes but one "plane of consciousness" as having any enduring significance, and that is the consciousness of the ever-presence of God and the reality of good. In Christian Science the only sphere of any significance is that of the spiritual universe. "The Christ-healing," writes Mrs. Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 29), "was practised even before the Christian era; 'the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' There is, however, no analogy between Christian Science and spiritualism, or between it and any speculative theory."

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