An evangelist, whose address was advertised in your newspaper...

Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,—Tekamah

Herald

An evangelist, whose address was advertised in your newspaper, gave a very confused idea of what Christian Science teaches. May I have space for a brief reply?

The statement is frequently made that Christian Science is hard to understand. If it seems so, it is because false concepts must be put out of thought as new ones are received. Children can and do understand Christian Science, and through their understanding receive its healing benefits.

The evangelist gave the impression that Christian Scientists give more heed to the teaching of Mary Baker Eddy than to the Word of God. The truth is that Christian Scientists are devoted students of the Bible as their Leader was; and they prove by their healing works, patterned on those of Jesus and his disciples, that demonstration or the answer to prayer is Immanuel, or "God with us."

No religious teacher has so consistently held to the concept of God as infinite and indivisible as Mrs. Eddy. She believed implicitly in the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Regarding this divine demand she has written on page 340 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The divine Principle of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal." Surely a religion so founded and sustained cannot be the system of errors and misstatements the minister represented it to be.

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