Article September 10, 1955 Issue

LOYALTY VERSUS CRITICISM

ESTHER DAVIS EDDY

There are two important words which might well gain the attention of every Christian Scientist. They are loyalty and criticism. In their truest and highest sense they are related. Loyalty to Principle, to all that is perfect and good, makes a life which is itself a criticism of anything less than good. A painting or a piece of sculpture, by its very evidence of perfection, criticizes the inferior.

Mary Baker Eddy, when questioned as to why she had called Christian Science the higher criticism, answered thus (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 240):

"I called Christian Science the higher criticism in my dedicatory Message to The Mother Church, June 10, 1906, when I said, 'This Science is a law of divine Mind, ... an ever-present help. Its presence is felt, for it acts and acts wisely, always unfolding the highway of hope, faith, understanding.'

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