Benson Tatham Woodhead, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
In your recent issue you report an address given on the subject of Christian Science, to which I should like to ask some space in your columns to reply.
Speaking
of Jesus, the master Metaphysician, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 51 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "His purpose in healing was not alone to restore health, but to demonstrate his divine Principle.
In
his Sermon on the Mount, as recorded by Matthew, Christ Jesus included an injunction which has since been designated the Golden Rule: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Many
of us on first hearing of Christian Science, and indeed after a longer period of study, make the mistake of becoming so absorbed in our desire to be freed from our seeming ills that we sometimes forget, unless aroused by our lack of spiritual progress, that we are engaged in studying to become Scientists, that is, not only scientific thinkers, but also loving Christian Scientists.
Cyril R. Hewson, Committee on Publication for Derbyshire, England,
In a sermon, as reported in your issue of November 6, a bishop, referring to the subject of healing, made the following remark: "The Christian religion is not, primarily, like Christian Science, a faith-healing cult.
