Kindly grant me space to reply to an article which appeared...

Philip King, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,—Washington

Herald

Kindly grant me space to reply to an article which appeared in your issue of Sunday, December 22 (American Weekly Section), in which a deacon refers to Christian Science as a "false religion" and to Mrs. Eddy, its Discoverer, Founder, and Leader, as being, in his opinion, "susceptible to the wiles of the devil."

The deacon does his own religion no honor in thus attacking another religion and its Discoverer and Leader. I take it that the test of all true religion is contained in the statement made nineteen hundred years ago by Christ Jesus when he said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." And so, let Christian Science be judged by its fruits as shown forth by its twenty-three hundred or more churches and societies established throughout the world, and its many followers who are trying to carry out the teachings of the Master in healing the sick as well as the sinning.

If the religion of Christian Science is false, what, then, can be said of the teachings of the prophets and of Jesus as found in the Bible; for Mrs. Eddy tells us in her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," on pages 103 and 104: "I have demonstrated through Mind the effects of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals of men; and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only authority."

Concerning that grand and noble woman, Mary Baker Eddy, I would call the deacon's attention to the many disinterested writers' estimates of her character and work, and to one in particular, that of Charles Francis Potter, who, in his book entitled "The Story of Religion as Told in the Lives of Its Leaders," has written of Mrs. Eddy on page 555, "She is the most compelling figure in American religious history."

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