Letters February 19, 1944 Issue

Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication

with contributions from James W. Fulton, Ellen Graham, Benjamin F. Sage

James W. Fulton, Committee on Publication for Ontario, Canada The Canadian Churchman, Toronto

Having admired The Canadian Churchman for years for its rugged editorials, crusading sermons, and clean journalism, it was with deep regret that I recently found it party to an utterly unchristian attack upon Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and aiding in a pitiable misrepresentation of the teachings of that religion. The Churchman had republished from another publication an article entitled "The Podsnappery of Christian Science."

The writer's portrayal of Mrs. Eddy was entirely false. Through earnest study under private tutors she received as a child an education much above the average for girls of that day. But the Bible was her constant companion and teacher, counselor and guide. Its inspired pages awakened in her, as it had in reformers of earlier centuries, a spiritual sense of the Scriptures far removed from, and according to many far in advance of, the teachings of the Christian religions of her day. This spiritual illumination, with the fruition of experience and proof, enabled Mrs. Eddy to write "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," noteworthy indeed as the textbook of an important and growing religious organization.

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