Article June 11, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins, D.D.
The First congregational Church
Royal Oak, Michigan
in his pulpit message "What I Owe
to the Christian Scientists"

In every Christian Science Sunday service the "preachers" are the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. These are read from alternately. Christian Scientists are wont to call Mrs. Eddy "our Leader"—with a capital L. . . .

The editor of a New York newspaper was asked to list the ten most distinguished women in American history. His comment was, "If I were to make such a list, I would head it with the name of Mary Baker Eddy." Why? "Because," he said, "of her unsurpassed courage." I quote: "She had thrown down the gauntlet to the three most inveterate aspects of the human mind—science, theology, and medicine. She had said to the material scientists that there is no matter; to the doctors that the human mind is the cause of disease, and the divine Mind cures it; to the theologians that their concepts of the Supreme Being would dishonor God." . . .

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