Article November 15, 1952 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

Frank B. Kemp

Bude and Stratton Post

Lanceston, Cornwall, England
Bude and Stratton Post

In a letter which appeared in [a recent] issue, the following passage was included: "Therefore faith healing, like spiritualism, mind cures, hypnotism, Christian Science, occultism and other 'isms' are not the works of the Holy Spirit, but are works of Satan." May I point out that Christian Science is founded on the teachings of Christ Jesus. Its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, in her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 28), says: "I believe in no ism. This is my endeavor, to be a Christian, to assimilate the character and practice of the anointed."

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 497), Mrs. Eddy has included six religious tenets to which all members of Christian Science churches are required to subscribe. I should like to quote two of them: "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." "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure."

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