Article January 1, 1977 Issue

Letters to the Press

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

Bryan G. Pope

London Times Literary Supplement

London Times Literary Supplement
London, England

The letter from Dame Rebecca West in the TLS of June 11 pays a generous tribute to Victor Cazalet but runs askew in its assumption that, as a Christian Scientist, [he] was inhibited from acknowledging frankly the demonic elements of human life.

Whatever Cazalet's personal ambivalences may have been, the Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, had no hesitation about exposing, defining, denouncing and combating the assorted and sometimes inherent evils of the unregenerate human condition—or, as she calls it in one place, "the ghastly farce of material existence" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 272).

Even leaving aside the subtleties of Christian Science metaphysics, however, it is a plain fact that The Christian Science Monitor (the newspaper founded by Mrs. Eddy in her eighty-eighth year) had no difficulty in recognizing and opposing at an early stage the viciousness of fascism and the folly of appeasement. It would be as great a mistake to assume that a Christian Scientist's religious belief automatically inhibits his political realism as to believe that an atheist's dismissal of God necessarily inclines him toward communism.

Bryan G. Pope
District Manager for Great Britain and Ireland

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