Letters December 8, 1945 Issue

Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication

Colin Rücker Eddison

Bromley and Kentish Times

Colin Rücker Eddison, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland Bromley and Kentish Times, Bromley, Kent

In one of your recent issues, under the heading "On Quacks," there appears an account of a meeting of the Hayes Round Table, at which a doctor is reported to have made a misleading reference to Christian Science. The terms "quack" and "quackery," as generally understood, imply some form of fraud and imposture, and as such, they cannot properly be applied to Christian Science practice.

It is true that Christian Science does not heal on the basis of materia medica or through the use of material means; nor does it pretend to do so. Its healing rests on a purely spiritual basis, and its success is shown in the carefully authenticated testimonies of healing which appear each week in the Christian Science Sentinel and each month in The Christian Science Journal. Any form of fraud or quackery is alien to Christian Science. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 453): "Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help."

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