In your issue of December 6 appears a question answered...

Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,—Williamsport

Gazette and Bulletin

In your issue of December 6 appears a question answered by a prominent clergyman regarding the growth of symbolism in modern churches. The answer contains the following: "You have probably observed the subtle movements toward the recovery of the transcendent and the mystical."

Permit me to say that if the word "subtle" has any application whatsoever, it may be found in the clergyman's use of the term Christian Science in the same classification with "occultism's various manifestations."

Christian Science is derived from the Bible, and particularly from the teaching and practice of Christ Jesus. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy declares (p. 313), "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe." The words "subtle" and "occult," I respectfully submit, cannot justly be applied to the Word of God, particularly in the light which Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has thrown upon it as being absolute Science. The dilemma of the so-called material scientist, to which the clergyman refers, and that of the clergyman himself, lies in their failure to discern this great fact.

There is neither subtlety nor occultism in Mrs. Eddy's statement on page 127 of her textbook: "There is no physical science, inasmuch as all truth proceeds from the divine Mind. Therefore truth is not human, and is not a law of matter, for matter is not a lawgiver. Science is an emanation of divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright. It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. It is a divine utterance,—the Comforter which leadeth into all truth."

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