East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-20
FROM THE PEOPLE
IN DEFENSE OF CHRISTIAN SCI
ENCE.

Portland, Ore, March IS, 1914.
To the Editor of the East Oregonian
1t is seldom that an audience of
intelligent people is subjected to
such a test of its credulity as was
imposed last week upon the citizens
of Pendleton when DR.. Bulgin voiced
his personal and unfriendly opinions
of Christian Science. A mass Of
grosser Misrepresentation and more
blatant untruths could not well be
imagined than those contained in his
address Such malicious attacks,
often covered with the veneer of an
assumed desire to be fair, have with
out exception redounded to the ben
eft of Christian Science. For let 1t
age, that men are beginning to do
their own thinking. The time when
religious convictions and beliefs were
taken second hand from the pulpits
and platform is rapidly giving way
to an age in which the individual is
seeking at first hand for the truth
about his God Men no longer sit
content with opinions passed to
them through channels narrowed by
secular prejudice and warped with
scholastic bigotry. And to this free
dom of individual thought Christian
Science owes in considerable meas
ure its remarkable growth in the last
two score years. Thousands and
hundreds of thousands have found in
Christian Science not the perversion
Of Christianity that Dr. Bulgin por-
trays but a living religion of good
deeds. From it they have learned,
what the orthodoxy Of the day has
failed to teach them. namely. the
daily application of Christ's teach.
ings to humanity's every need,
whether that need be for comfort
from sorrow, healing of sickness or
forgiveness of sin.
To a world filled with sickness. dis
cord and despair, Christian Science
has brought again the message OF
ION earth peace. good will to men"
1t has thrown the light of under
standing on the scriptures and un-
locked for all mankind the treas
ures of spiritual truths therein con-
tanned. It's road has been hard and
It's advance beset by fearful odds. Per-
secution by those who have not un-
derstood has been bitter but persecu-
ton is giving way to liberation and
liberation to respect and appreciation.
The message of Christian Science is
that of the Messiah, the Christ. Truth,
proved by Jesus and the early Chris
tians and discerned in this age by a
great and good woman who endured
the opprobrium and ridicule of hos
tile world to give what she had seen
of spiritual truth to a sinsick human
ity, The truth about Christian Sci
ence can be learned by any fair
minded Investigator It's textbook
Science and Health. is in almost ev-
cry public library. A correct BIZ
ography of its discoverer. Mary Ba-
ker Eddy, written by Sibyl Wilbur,
Is likewise available. 1t asks of tn,
world but justice and honesty when Its
teachings are being considered ant
for its followers It seeks no othel
standard than the one established b,
Jesus. "Ye shall know them by theil
fruits"
No religion is more completely II
accord with the Bible than Is Chris
tian Science, and no class of people
are more earnest Bible students than
are Christian Scientists. Throug
the truth which It teaches the world
is learning that religion is the sci
ence of right living and that tn
teachings of the Bible understood Civ
to man the key to happiness an