Article March 27, 1943 Issue

Replies from Committees on Publication to Newpaper Comments

with contributions from R. Ashley Vines,, Stanley Sheen,, E. F.

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

It is gratifying to note that "Keep Trying" recognizes that Christian Science "can produce beneficial effects in actual everyday human experiences." However, to include Christian Science among "other nonorthodox cults" is to place it in an entirely wrong category, and is therefore quite misleading.

A cult is defined as "excessive devotion to some person or thing, especially devotion viewed as a sort of intellectual fad." To refer to Christian Science as a "cult" would create the impression that Christian Science is "extravagant homage" or "a system of religious rites or ceremonies"—quoting further from the dictionary. Christian Science cannot be accurately designated as a cult, because it is a law—a divine law, based on the teachings of the Bible. Christian Science, the Science of Christianity, has always been in existence, and was used by the ancient prophets, by Jesus, by his disciples, and by the early Christians for the first three centuries of the Christian era.

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