LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

The Day, Jewish Journal

The Day, Jewish Journal New York, New York

Your recent articles on Christian Science in The Day were sent to us . . . and we read them with interest. We appreciate your evident desire to give a fair and honest presentation, and I am wondering whether you might be interested in a few comments from us on your general thesis.

It might be that you would see both Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy in a different perspective if you could recognize more clearly the basic religious nature of her teachings. The thing that separates Christian Science completely from Quimbyism is its fundamental teaching that brings Christian Scientists a deeper revelation of the theology of the Bible than they have ever known before. Quimby's son George—a stanch champion of his father—himself recognized this when he wrote: "The religion which she [Mrs. Eddy] teaches certainly is hers, for which I cannot be too thankful; for I should be loath to go down to my grave feeling that my father was in any way connected with 'Christian Science.' "

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