LETTERS TO THE PRESS from Christian Science Committees on Publication

John J. Selover

Time

John J. Selover, Committee on
Publication for Southern California Time, Los Angeles

In his advertisement and sermon publicity a minister announced as his topic. "Christian Science and Its Deadly Teaching Concerning God, Jesus Christ, Sin and Atonement." Ordinarily we do not ask a newspaper to publish a letter correcting a sermon topic, but when, as here, the topic itself imposes upon the public a misstatement about our religion, we feel that a reply is essential.

There are thousands of Christian Scientists in Los Angeles County alone whose lives have been happified and preserved by Christian Science. They do not consider the religion deadly. It is to them the very opposite.

Christian Scientists are devout students of the Bible. They love its inspired messages. They look to the Bible to learn what God is. They apply what they know of God to their daily problems even as Christ Jesus taught his disciples.

The important points of our religion are summarized in what are known as six religious Tenets. For the benefit of those who wish to know what we teach, I repeat from page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, three of the Tenets which deal with the minster's subject:

"We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.

"We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.

"We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death. "

Further information relative to the subject may be obtained at any Christian Science Reading Room.

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.—Isaiah 59:1.

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