Letters March 31, 1945 Issue

Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication

with contributions from William Kenneth Primrose, Frank T. Norman

William Kenneth Primrose, Assistant to the District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland Hornsey Journal, London

The correspondent whose letter appears in your recent issue should know that the teachings of Christian Science are in no way pantheistic. This fact should be clear to one familiar with Mrs. Eddy's address in 1898 and now published in the pamphlet "Christian Science versus Pantheism." Your correspondent will also find many statements in the Christian Science textbook contradicting the theory of pantheism.

Your correspondent must also surely know that Christian Scientists do not accept as real what they know of nature through the physical senses. In her work, "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 87), "In our immature sense of spiritual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous universe: 'I love your promise; and shall know, some time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light, and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and knowing this, I shall be satisfied. Matter is a frail conception of mortal mind; and mortal mind is a poorer representative of the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the immortal Mind.'"

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