Article July 5, 1958 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

Will B. Davis

The Covenant Weekly

The Covenant Weekly
Chicago, Illinois

Recently you ran an article entitled "Christian Science Appeals to the Emotions" by Melburn Soneson. I am sure it was not the purpose of the article itself to appeal to emotions rather than facts. For that reason I am taking the liberty of drawing to your attention a few facts which I am sure your writer and your readers will wish to know.

The article finds its premise in a derogatory judgment of Christian Science by Mark Twain. Apparently your writer is not aware of Mark Twain's final judgment of Christian Science, as recorded by his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, and confirmed by his daughter, Clara Clemens, in her book My Husband Gabrilowitsch: "Christian Science is humanity's boon. ... [Mary Baker Eddy] has organized and made available a healing principle that for two thousand years has never been employed except as the merest kind of guess-work. She is the benefactor of the age."

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